8月21日CNN聽力：回想柏林墻的血淚史 奴役與自由
Yesterday,November 9,was the anniversary of amajor event in the Cold War.
This was a rivalry that developed after World War IIbetween the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
There wasn't open combat between them,but thetwo superpowers supported different sides ofconflict in the Korean War and Vietnam amongother places.
A wall built in the German capital came to represent the Cold War.
It stood between democracy and communism,and it cracked in 1989.
In the embers of World War II,a defeated Germany was carved up,occupied by Britain,Franceand the United States to the west,and the Soviet Union to the east.
Berlin,which lay well within the eastern territory,was also divided.
The west,an island of capitalism engulfed by a communist super block.
Though many Berliners could still move freely within the city - well,that was until August13,1961.
Berliners awoke to a barbed wire fence surrounding the western part of the city.
A barrier to contain East Germans hungry for the lifestyles of the West.
Overnight,families were split,and East Berliners working in the West were cut off from theirjobs.
Barbed wire soon became a sprawling concrete colossus,stretching 155 kilometers.
Thousands of armed guards kept watch from 302 observation towers.
Now,looking out from the east,past the outer wall,is an area known as the death zone,whereguards would shoot to kill.
A signal fence here sends a silent alarm when touched.
Next,tank before a terrible carpet of metal spikes,nicknamed felons'lawn.
Then the wall as the West saw it,3.6 meters tall,topped with a half pipe in places to makescaling it almost impossible.
More than 100,000 East Germans attempted to escape past the wall.
At least 5,000 succeeded,but more than 200 died trying.
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