Editing Berlin Wall (section)

===Cultural differences===
[[File:Berlin wall holes.jpg|thumb|upright|Remains of the Berlin wall, 2016|150px]]
[[File:Trozo del Muro de Berlín en Fátima (4592089636).jpg|thumb|Segment of the Berlin wall in the [[Sanctuary of Fátima]], [[Portugal]]]]
For many years after reunification, people in Germany talked about cultural differences between East and West Germans (colloquially [[Ossi and Wessi|''Ossis'' and ''Wessis'']]), sometimes described as ''Mauer im Kopf'' (The wall in the head). A September 2004 poll found that 25 percent of West Germans and 12 percent of East Germans wished that East and West should be separated again by a "Wall".<ref>{{cite web |agency=Reuters |title=One in 5 Germans wants Berlin Wall rebuilt |work=NBC News |date=8 September 2004 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5942091 |access-date=23 February 2006 |archive-date=18 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318225853/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5942091/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A poll taken in October 2009 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall indicated, however, that only about a tenth of the population was still unhappy with the unification (8 percent in the East; 12 percent in the West). Although differences are still perceived between East and West, Germans make similar distinctions between [[Northern Germany|North]] and [[Southern Germany|South]].<ref>{{cite web |author=ZDF "Wochenjournal" |title=Große Zustimmung zur Wiedervereinigung |publisher=ZDF |date=5 November 2009 |url=http://wochenjournal.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/11/0,1872,7925355,00.html |access-date=6 November 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214050606/http://wochenjournal.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/11/0%2C1872%2C7925355%2C00.html |archive-date=14 December 2009}}</ref>

A 2009 poll conducted by Russia's VTsIOM, found that more than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall. Ten percent of people surveyed thought Berlin residents built it themselves. Six percent said Western powers built it and four percent thought it was a "bilateral initiative" of the [[Soviet Union]] and the West. Fifty-eight percent said they did not know who built it, with just 24 percent correctly naming the Soviet Union and its then-communist ally East Germany.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A44NS20091105 |title=Who built Berlin Wall? Most Russians don't know |publisher=Uk.reuters.com |date=5 November 2009 |access-date=6 August 2011 |first=Dmitry |last=Solovyov |archive-date=19 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119031054/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A44NS20091105 |url-status=dead }}</ref>