Opinion: Re-examining the lessons of the 1948-49 Berlin blockade The showdown has been largely forgotten, but it offers valuable insights for today’s world ...

The dichotomy between the success of the Berlin Airlift and the battle over humanitarian aid in 2024 has emerged because politicians today have not learned the crucial lesson of what made the ...

It is republished unedited in its original form. Life in Berlin for Americans these days is still fairly normal despite the blockade. Commissaries continue to be well-stocked.

The Berlin airlift was a propaganda close propagandaThe spread of ideas, often one-sided, designed to influence people's opinions. defeat for the Soviets and a great boost for the West.

The Berlin squeezer was used at full pressure in 1948-49 (when it was broken by the airlift), and at half pressure in 1951, after the West proposed West German rearmament.

The first Berlin International Film Festival in 1951 was designed to serve as a propaganda tool for the Allies just two years after the end of the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.

A Soviet blockade of the three western sectors of Berlin started on June 24 1948. At that point, the city, like the rest of Germany, was split into areas of Russian, British, US and French control as ...

The Berlin blockade and later the Berlin wall foreshadowed similar events in the Russian-occupied territories of Georgia after the Russian-Georgian war of 2008.