Behind the Curtain

On October 27, 1961 combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army's Checkpoint Charlie. 

Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the outpost city of Berlin and its Soviet-controlled eastern sector had increased to the point of direct military confrontation.

Cooler minds prevailed, the Soviet system eventually collapsed and today Germany has been made whole.

Communism doesn't work...