Cold War Documentaries
Discussion
Having just watched all the D-Day documentaries over the past few days( D-Day to Berlin:Newsnight Special was particularly harrowing, colour film of the liberation of Dachau etc), I want to follow this on with some Cold War documentaries.
Has anyone seen this series?
http://www.amazon.com/Cnn-Cold-War-8pc-VHS/dp/0780...
It looks pretty good, 24 episodes so I'm hoping it'll be pretty comprehensive, I'm particularly interested in what happened to Berlin after Stalin staked his claim on it.
Has anyone seen this series?
http://www.amazon.com/Cnn-Cold-War-8pc-VHS/dp/0780...
It looks pretty good, 24 episodes so I'm hoping it'll be pretty comprehensive, I'm particularly interested in what happened to Berlin after Stalin staked his claim on it.
The wall wasn't built until 1960/61 - 15 years after the war had ended.
Initially there was relative freedom of movement between the occupied sectors of Berlin. However, the Soviets didn't like the idea of Berlin, which was well inside the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, having any British, French or American presence at all and their first test of the resolve of the Western Allies was the complete blockade of the entire city in 1948.
This was only broken after a whole year of supplying Berlin with its essential supplies by air, the famous Berlin Airlift of 1948/49.
After the blockade was lifted, the Soviets began to impose more and more travel restrictions on East Berliners until they finally decided that the only sure way to keep East Berliners in place (or to protect them from Western Imperilaist decadent lifestyle - as they saw it) was to build the wall.
Initially there was relative freedom of movement between the occupied sectors of Berlin. However, the Soviets didn't like the idea of Berlin, which was well inside the Soviet Occupied Zone of Germany, having any British, French or American presence at all and their first test of the resolve of the Western Allies was the complete blockade of the entire city in 1948.
This was only broken after a whole year of supplying Berlin with its essential supplies by air, the famous Berlin Airlift of 1948/49.
After the blockade was lifted, the Soviets began to impose more and more travel restrictions on East Berliners until they finally decided that the only sure way to keep East Berliners in place (or to protect them from Western Imperilaist decadent lifestyle - as they saw it) was to build the wall.
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