A Tale of Two Families: Over the Berlin Wall in a Hot Air Balloon
For Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel, the time, effort, and dangers they had to face were all worth it if it meant the freedom of their families.
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For Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel, the time, effort, and dangers they had to face were all worth it if it meant the freedom of their families.
What It Was Like Living In Berlin During The Cold War Keystone/Getty Images By S. Flannagan/Feb. 2, 2021 11:04 am EDT "Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin." Thus spoke Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at a gathering in Yugoslavia in 1963, according to Alpha History. Khrushchev's metaphor, coarse as it may be, provides a vivid and memorable starting point for thinking about the German capital, which, after being ravaged by aerial bombardments and brutal street battles in the fina...