Beijing: The Western City of the East

When I got off the plane for the first time in India in 2004, my sensation was shelled with information keeping reminding me that he was not at home right away. In the cool winter of Delhi, homelessly burned garbage leaves behind burning smog in the city to keep the warmth, and it is bright and extreme Dirty women holding one or two children with both hands, who are begging me for extreme wealth partly, were never stopped.

The history book reminds us that Berlin is always the forefront city between the capitalist West and the communist East, during the notoriously cold war era. It is also the infamous city of the Berlin Wall and the East German Communist government elected to let the Berlin Wall escape its wealthy western neighbor. Before I went to Germany, I heard about the taste of drinks with glühwein from a German professor. She can not stop enthusiasm for it. As a result, I decided to put my hand on a drink at a certain point during the trip. Interestingly, I managed to get a drink in the best way somehow.

It is difficult to imagine the absurdity of East Berlin and West Berlin of today. West Berlin is a small western enclave surrounded by the East German countries about 100 miles east of the West German border. For some reason, after the end of World War II, the Soviet blockade, initiated by Western allies through Berlin's air transport, successfully kept West Berlin as a symbol of Western freedom at the heart of the Communist group. In 1961, the German Democratic Republic government was concerned about brain drain and lack of ideology, but in the scenario imagined in the movie 'Spy Bridge' concrete walls were built in the city of West Berlin. In 1989, the wall collapsed, the Communist group collapsed, and East Germany and West Germany started to unite.

East Germans believes that East Berlin is its capital city, and the remaining part of the Soviet Union and the East Group diplomatically recognizes East Berlin as its capital. However, Western allies expressed a disagreement that the entire city of Berlin is occupied by the Allied Controlling Committee. According to Margarete Feinstein, the status of East Berlin as the capital is hardly recognized in Western countries and most third world countries. In fact, during the Cold War the authority of ACC became meaningless, the status of East Berlin as occupied area was mostly legal fiction, the former Soviet Union was fully integrated in East Germany.