Another Occupied US Colony

I was trying to explain to my 12-y-o about East and West Germany today when he saw a TV story about the Berlin Wall (I drove through it 20 years ago, just weeks after it came down, and it was like going back 50 years in time). I explained that the Russians built the wall to block off East Berlin, and then he asked "So who owned the other side?"

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