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Two lightning bolts strike the Kremlin, one of which is titled, "Satellite Unrest" and the other, "Beria Purge"

The image signifies that both these high profile events occurred shortly after Stalin's death. The title is a reference to the saying, "Lightning never strikes twice".

The image essentially suggests that the unrest in the satellite states is rare and unexpected, as it is compared to a double striking lightning bolt.

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A Soviet tank approaches Germany but is stopped by a German submarine's periscope.

This is a reference to the mighty Kriegsmarine during WWII. Additionally, it suggests that

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Khruschev later used the uprising and the Soviets' failure to prevent or contain it before it became an event as part of his argument against Beria, as well as to have him arrested 10 days after the uprising began.

This appears to show the Russian side of the opportunism that emerged from and within the uprising, as well as illustrates the gravity of the uprising's significance to Soviet control as it represented a major breach of the Soviets' police and military power.

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Hanz-Walter Benzko points out that there were not only East Berliners at the demonstrations, protests and riots, but "West Berlin provocateurs" as well. This shows the tinge of opportunism present at the uprising, presumably due to the increasing volatility and apparent bias of Soviet leadership following Stalin's death.

One reason the prevalent anti-Soviet sentiments culminated on June 16th and 17th in 1955 of all years may have been that this presented a chance for the Germans to entirely shake off Soviet control by causing enough of a rupture in their grip that it forces them to withdraw to the East and hold their control there.

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This political cartoon highlights many of the East Germans' woes which they placed the blame on the Soviet Union, namely the collectivization of agriculture and the food shortages throughout the country.

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Your patient is screaming so, I can't hear a word you say

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Your patient is screaming so, I can't hear a word you say

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This political cartoon warns against the Soviet intentions behind a reunification by highlighting their repressive actions in response to the East German Uprising of 1953

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Czechoslovak description of the proceedings, June 17 1953

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Czechoslovak description of the proceedings, June 17 1953

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"The demonstrators are shouting slogans like, 'Down with German-Soviet friendship,' 'Down with the government . . . Long live Western freedom,' 'We want a new government,' 'Long live the general strike . . . We want butter, not armed police,' 'We want free elections in Berlin,'"

The East German workers who went on strike in Berlin generally expressed disdain for the Soviets' subversion of their everyday lives in favor of such measures as increased police/paramilitary presence, as well as the installation of the SED against the public vote

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REPORT FROM V. SOKOLOVSKII AND L. GOVOROV IN BERLIN TO N.A. BULGANIN

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REPORT FROM V. SOKOLOVSKII AND L. GOVOROV IN BERLIN TO N.A. BULGANIN

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"The events that have taken place in Berlin and the other large cities of the Soviet Zone of Germany today, 17 June, seem to be a major planned uprising covering the whole territory of the German Democratic Republic and aimed at making a coup d'etat and simultaneously replacing the government in the German Democratic Republic."

The Soviet Army saw the uprising as an affair that was planned in advance. They believe the citizens became enflamed by some centralized force.

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Soviet officials knew that there would be an uprising, just not on the scale or with anti-Soviet intentions that they saw. The Soviet Union also claimed that the West provoked the uprising, partially out of a necessity to conceal their own failure.

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"The previous day, East Berlin had witnessed its first major mass strikes since the war. Emboldened by the announcement of the New Course, cheered on by Stalin's death, frustrated by the fact that the new policies didn't seem to include lower work quotas, Berlin's workers had taken to the streets to protest. Lutz Rackow, an East German journalist, had walked down Stalinallee on June 16 alongside several thousand construction workers. They carried banners-'Berliners, join us! We don't want to be slaves to our work!'"

Frustrated with Ulbricht's refusal to lower the work quotas after Stalin's death, resulting in strikes which picked up workers and grew in size until it became a full revolt. Stalin's death weakened the Soviet Grip on East German society due to losing the mighty Stalin's Cult along with the ensuing power struggle between the ruling oligarchy which directed the Soviet Union's attention towards domestic and not foreign affairs. The Soviet officials even told Ulbricht to bring down the work quotas to avoid a revolution but he refused to comply, thus the revolt eventually blew up.

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What did each country see as causes for the 1953 East German uprising?

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What did each country see as causes for the 1953 East German uprising?