Nearly one quarter of respondents in Russia were of the opinion that the Berlin Wall was constructed by East Germany and the Soviet Union, according to results of the survey conducted in November 2019. Other popular responses were that the wall separating West Berlin from East Germany was built by German people themselves, by the United States, England, or the Federal Republic of Germany, or that it was in the interest of both sides of the divided country. As of 2019, 93 percent of Russians heard about the Berlin Wall.
In your opinion, who built the Berlin Wall?*
Characteristic
Share of respondents
USSR, "ours," East Germany, GDR, Russia and Germany
24%
Germany (von Bismarck), people, residents of Berlin, Germans themselves
6%
United States, England, capitalists of West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany
6%
It was a mutual process, authorities and government from both sides
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