pply shortages. Onehundred-sixty thousand refugees
             crossed the border from East Berlin to West Berlin between January and the beginning of
             August of 1961 in search of a better life. This upset the East German government and the
             Soviet countries. (East Germany was a Soviet satellite, but was of special interest to
             Nikita Kruschev, the Soviet premier of that time ordered the Berlin wall built to
             stop the flow of refugees. The GDR began building what they called "the
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