Seventy Years Agone Today The Soviets Blockaded Westward Berlin Together With Began Their Endeavor To Starve The Urban Heart Together With Mortal Into Submission

At the fourth dimension it wasn't known every bit West Berlin only rather the French, British too American Zones of Occupation. But the Sov's did cutting it off from from what, less than a twelvemonth later, May of 1949, was to overstep West Germany

As amongst many crises, this i began amongst a disagreement over money, specifically the surprise currency telephone commutation past times the Western powers of the novel Deutsche Mark to supercede the seriously debased (by the Russians overprinting) Reichsmark.

Our concluding advert of the currency swap was inwards 2016's "Whoa: Republic of Republic of India Messes With Currency Big-Time":

Although non every bit dramatic* every bit the 1948 German linguistic communication currency reform when 10 Reichsmarks were swapped for 1 Deutsche Mark in the Western zones of occupation, this is yet a stunning move....

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...*Four days after the Soviets blockaded the urban amount of Berlin to starve and/or freeze the population into submission which led to i of my favorite examples of clear thinking...

We'll convey to a greater extent than on Tuesday, to a greater extent than or less other anniversary of the events of '48 - '49.