Why was Berlin split into two when it was so far into Soviet Territory?

Question

Seems like they could have drawn the boundaries to give the allies something else instead of half of a city so far from their own zone.

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Answer 1

Berlin had three Allied sectors: US, British,French that worked together under the Allied Staff Berlin Headquarters which had representatives from each of these nations. Their main purpose was to counter the Soviet threat and keep the city open as the society’s tried to take it through blockade. This was countered by the Berlin Airlift. It was interesting and exciting to be stationed in West Berlin as a young US Army officer in the days of the Berlin Wall. Even then I could see how inept the Russian military was.