Communist East Berlin
Berlin was the front line in a war of nerves and no other city symbolizes the secrecy, tyranny, and double-face of the Cold War.
Your Berlin&Beyond guide is an expert on the Cold War, your very own agent, leading you from the island of freedom in West Berlin, across the death strip, into the capital of Central Europe’s most Stalinist state.
Follow a trail of ghosts through a Berlin where two superpowers met head-to-head. See where Soviet and American tanks stood on the brink of a nuclear war and experience what life was really like behind the iron curtain.
Explore the Stalin Allee, a street designed to be one meter wider than the Champs d'elysees and a masterpiece of Socialist architecture.
See the Bernauer Strasse, where the Wall separated East and West often through the houses themselves. We’ll see how and why the Wall was built and talk about life on both sides.
Find out about Berlin, the espionage capital of the world and how the CIA and MI6 tapped Eastern Europe’s communication network in a service tunnel called Operation Gold. See how an MI6 double agent blew the whistle.
Stand in front of the Palace of Tears, the border crossing at Friedrichstrasse, where families separated by the Wall waited for each other and bid their sad farewells.
Your Cold War experience serves as a stark reminder of how the world held its breath for 40 years and how relevant the struggle for freedom is to our world today.
On this tour we cover:
- Berlin wall escape
- Life in East Berlin then and now
- East side gallery, painted Berlin wall
- Nuclear bunkers
- The Secret Police, the dreaded StaSi
- Soviet War Memorial
- Socialist architecture and city planning
- Alexanderplatz
- TV tower
- Stalin Allee now Karl Marx Allee
- Stalin's mustache & Left ear
- Soviet embassy & Aeroflot office