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Comment by nephihaha

1 day ago

That wall is to keep people out from another state, not in.

After all, they kept Paul Robeson in by simply pulling his passport, no wall needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson#:~:text=A%20month...

  • I don't need to go to Wikipedia to read about Robeson. Guy became a Stalin fan and crumbled mentally when he realised the USSR was not what it claimed. Great singer though.

    • I think part of what they didn't like was that in Old Man River, instead of singing:

        Git a little drunk
        An' you lands in jail
      

      for Moscow audiences he sang:

        Show a little grit
        And you land in jail

That's how east berlin marketed it too, it still features bi-directional blocking abilities, like all walls.