Why did USSR allow for Austrian reunification but not German?

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Both Germany and Austria were divided into four occupation zones following World War II, and Vienna was divided like Berlin. So why was there an East Germany and a Berlin Wall for so long but there was never an East Austria and a Vienna Wall?

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One thing that hasn’t come up…would West Austria and East Austria even be viable independent countries? They’d be very small.

Apparently there were concerns Austria’s post-1918/current borders wouldn’t be economically viable, much less cutting it in half.

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