Berlin Blockade Van Tonder Gerry
Berlin Blockade Van Tonder Gerry When the world held its breath ...It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on,…
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Berlin Blockade Van Tonder Gerry
When the world held its breath ...It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe--with the brutal Greek Civil War.
Their victory had cost millions of Russian lives - troops and civilians - so the hammer and sickle hoisted atop the Reichstag was more a claim to ownership than success. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was Berlin.Allied agreements entered into at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam for the carving up of postwar Berlin now meant nothing to the Soviet conquerors. Moscow's agenda was clear and simple: the Western Allies had to leave Berlin.
The blockade