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1953: Stones Against Tanks - Upheaval in East Germany

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The USA sees any attempts by the Soviet government to help the people of East Germany as political ploys to either reduce discontent or improve upon their international image. The tone of this passage clearly shows how they believe the USSR doesn't care about its citizens

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CIA Current Intelligence Review Analyzing the Communist 'New Look in East Germany' and 'Recent Unrest in Eastern Europe"

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CIA Current Intelligence Review Analyzing the Communist 'New Look in East Germany' and 'Recent Unrest in Eastern Europe"

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"In admitting and adjusting 'previous mistakes,' the East German Communists are evidently aiming at several objectives [...] they hold out hope of improving living
conditions which have recently caused widespread discontent. By promising restitution to refugees,
they apparently hope to stem the flow of malcontents to the West which has seriously embarrassed
the government and deprived it of skilled labor."

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The American attempts to disrupt and hurt Soviet stabilization worked, and the Soviets were annoyed at this as they were also providing some help in their mind, but the population wasn't taking advantage of it - this hurts their attempts at taking control

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Document No. 87: Conclusions from Reports of the SED district Leaderships, 8 August 1953

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Document No. 87: Conclusions from Reports of the SED district Leaderships, 8 August 1953

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"Despite considerable educational party work, the majority of the population is largely uninterested in the decisions of the 15th Central Committee meeting, in the Volkskammer session, and the immense help provided by the Soviets [...] The position of the majority of the population and the symptomatic arguments have changed little from the days before. Typically the following arguments remain: 'You've got to take what you can get from the Americans'"

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The USA thought the USSR was not fair to the countries it "presides" over. This way of thinking no doubt was also how they thought about East Germany, in how they were acting there was unfair to east Germans.

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"The Soviet government held a vastly different vision for the future. In the world its design, security was to be found, not in mutual trust and mutual aid but in force: huge armies, subversion, rule of neighbor nations. The goal was power superiority at all cost. Security was to be sought by denying it to all others"

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Stalin sitting in the back seat of a car holding a gun to the head of a frightened "east Germany". Visual representation of the how the people feared Stalin specifically.

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1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Soviet leader Stalin in the back seat of a car, pointing a gun at the head of the frightened driver (labeled "East Germany"). Suggests that although the Soviet Union has permitted the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, the political purges of the opposition parties in 1949 and 1950 have made it clear that the Russians are still in control.

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The United States government was surprised by the uprising but quickly took advantage of the situation - in short, the USA saw this uprising as a chance to reduce Soviet influence and power

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"the Eisenhower administration, while surprised by the uprising, quickly recognized the opportunity for "rollback" and devised a psychological warfare plan with the aim of further destabilizing the situation in East Germany"

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"Keeping the Pot Simmering": The United States and the East German Uprising of 1953 on JSTOR

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They gathered in Berlin in defiance of the Soviet Union burning soviet flags and buildings. Fighting against the Soviet leadership, less scared now that Stalin is no longer in the picture.

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The Soviet Union felt that these new policies would help lower unrest while still keeping most things (working conditions and outputs) the same. This is not how the East Germans saw it.

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East Germans took part in this uprising for a few reasons, they were tired of life as it was and less afraid due to Soviet changes (mostly Stalin's death and introduction of the New Course)

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"The capitalists will take your work back to their place, where labor is cheap and unemployment high."

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"Capitalism devours everything"

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"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"

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Discuss the reasons for the 1953 East German Uprising and its significance to the Cold War.

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Discuss the reasons for the 1953 East German Uprising and its significance to the Cold War.