Berlin Airlift
Berlin Airlift The fate of the free world hung in the balance. The first step in Stalin's scheme was to bring Berlin under Soviet control. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western…
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Berlin Airlift
The fate of the free world hung in the balance. The first step in Stalin's scheme was to bring Berlin under Soviet control. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue the communist advance across Europe.
Stalin decided to make the Allied hold on West Berlin untenable by shutting down all the overland routes used to keep the city supplied.The choice faced by the Allies was a stark one - let Berlin fall, or risk war with the Soviets by breaking the Soviet stranglehold. Berlin was situated deep inside the Soviet-occupied region of the country, but the German capital had been divided into two halves, one of which was occupied by the Soviet Union, the other, in separate sectors, by Britain, France and the USA. In a remarkably visionary move, the Allies decided that they could keep Berlin supplied by flying over the Soviet blockade, thus