Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JUNE 18. The Western Allies announce their currency reform. Next day, the Russians suspend all passenger train traffic between the Eastern and Western zones, supposedly to keep Western marks out of the Russian sector. (Actually the first Russian traffic restrictions came almost three months before...
...Western envoys in Moscow meet Joseph Stalin. He repeats the Russian view that the Western Allies have no juridical right to be in Berlin, but declares that Russia has no intention of forcing them out. Stalin admits frankly that Russia's blockade was a retaliation against the Western powers' London plan for a Western German regime. Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin's sole currency. He agrees not to insist on postponement of the West's plans for Western Germany, but wants it recorded as Russia...
...Western envoys again meet Stalin and receive his personal draft of a directive to the Allied military governors in Berlin. This provides for lifting the blockade, and for circulation in Berlin of the Russian mark under four-power control. All this is subject to agreement, by the military governors, upon the "practical implementation" of the vaguely worded Moscow "agreement in principle...
...directive is sent. (The attitude of Russian officials, hitherto "correct," suddenly grows cooler & cooler...
Just for Defense? The U.S. has no persuasive direct evidence that Russia is preparing an immediate military attack. The Red Army has at least 14 divisions in Eastern Germany-a formidable force compared to the U.S., British and continental troops facing them. There is, however, little evidence that the Russians have been building up their garrison in Germany or preparing it to strike. Some evidence exists of increasing Russian military concentration much farther east, between Kiev and the Rumanian border. This might be preparation for an attack. On the other hand, it might be a Russian defensive measure, springing from...