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RT Handre van Heerden (@Handrev)In 1961, East German guards received secret orders to begin construction at midnight. By dawn, barbed wire stretched across Berlin. Within days, it became concrete and guard towers.The irony was lost on no one: a worker's paradise that required machine guns to keep workers from escaping to the capitalist hellscape next door. Over 28 years, at least 140 people died trying to cross that wall.The Berlin Wall wasn't unique. From the Iron Curtain to North Korea's DMZ, socialist st ...