Khrushchev Ordered Berlin Wall Construction

Almost 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it has now surfaced who ordered its construction.

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave the go-ahead for the construction of the infamous border structure, reports German news magazine Der Spiegel, citing a newly discovered Russian document.

Irritated by the constant exodus of East Germans into the western, Allied-occupied part of the country, Khrushchev in 1961 told East German authorities to "lay an iron ring around Berlin."

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