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* The [[Berlin Wall]] was a continuous 155-kilometer (96-mile) concrete barrier built by the government of then-Communist East Germany in 1961 to physically separate the Western-controlled section of Berlin from the rest of East Germany. Unlike most examples of the Great Wall, it wasn't built to defend East Germany but to keep its citizens from escaping to the West. It didn't do a very good job either, suffice to say that there is now an entire museum in Berlin dedicated to attempts (successful and otherwise) to breach it.
* The [[w:Gaza-Israel barrier|Gaza-Israel barrier]] is a seven-meter concrete wall topped with barbed wire that separates Israel from the Gaza strip. Construction began in 1994 and despite being largely torn down in September 2000 eventually encompassed the entire length of the border between the two, including an ''underground'' wall (completed in 2021) designed to prevent Hamas militants and other terrorists from tunneling into Israel.
* Former American President [[Donald Trump]] invoked this trope when he promised that he would build a "big beautiful wall" along the United States' southern border to protect poor helpless Americans from ravening hordes of illegal Mexican immigrants. He also promised to make Mexico pay for it, though the nearest he ever got to that was re-negotiating US Mexican trade deals to more favor the US and general cuts to foreign assistance.
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