East German Uprising by 2022Karina Larochelle https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d Karina Larochelle, Lily Mooney, Deeya Narang, Lauren Resnick en-us 2021-03-10 15:12:27 UTC 2025-11-12 15:35:24 UTC hello@padlet.com East Germans 9964100 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293374999 2021-03-10 15:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293374999 Soviet Union 9959104 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293381911 2021-03-10 15:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293381911 West Berlin Police holding back Crowds coming from East Berlin for food and clothing 9964100 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293419955 2021-03-10 15:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293419955 Q: Discuss the reasons for the 1953 East German Uprising and its significance to the Cold War. 9959104 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293428872 2021-03-10 15:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293428872 Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" 9961462 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293436297 "security was not to be found, not in mutual trust and mutual aid but in force: huge armies, subversion, rule of neighbor nations."]]> 2021-03-10 15:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293436297 East Germans felt that their basic human rights (such as food) were not being met by the GDR, especially in comparison to programs offered by the US. 9959711 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293454852 "Keeping the Pot Simmering": The United States and the East German Uprising of 1953 (JStor Historian)]]> 2021-03-10 15:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293454852 Provocation as a way to conceal their own failure to predict the riots 9959104 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293466152 "[...] Germans were not supposed to oppose any authority at all. Stalin himself had once laughed at the thought of political protests in East Germany: 'Revolt? Why they won't even cross the street unless the light is green.' But Stalin was dead" (Applebaum 444).
"[...] he found it convenient to justify his arrest by blaming Beria for the June 17 riots" (Applebaum 444)]]> 2021-03-10 15:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1293466152 The Soviet Government in itself was struggling to find their leadership, causing the miscommunications that existed within Germany https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1298283790 "It has been recognized that developments within the Soviet Zone of Germany may shed some light upon the power struggle going on within the Kremlin, including any significant shift in Soviet policy
growing out of this struggle for succession to Stalin's position of leadership and the consolidation of power in the hands of one particular group of men."
https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/111340]]> 2021-03-11 14:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1298283790 East Germans quickly developed a growing hatred for the system and leaders that Russia had imposed upon them https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1298461435 " East Germany people furiously destroy the symbols of power "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qBGkCj0_c]]> 2021-03-11 15:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1298461435 Change from Stalin to "Collective Leadership"- 9964100 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1302941246 "The Stalinist state
had paid little attention to the welfare of its citizens, and the state budgets
composed during the last years of Stalin were in fact a continuation of a
war economy. The oligarchs, who had surrounded Stalin during the last years of his life, and from whom the top leadership would have to emerge,
desired the establishment of a normality the like of which had not existed
since the 1920s."]]> 2021-03-12 15:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1302941246 USSR troops' military presence in East Berlin and Eastern Germany during and following the uprising emphasized the aggression and desire for the spread of communist influence of the USSR. 9959711 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1302953526 The videos in the Silent footage collection (British Pathe) show the aggression of the Soviet military presence in E. Berlin following the uprising which was a point of tension between the two countries during Cold War.]]> 2021-03-12 15:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1302953526 East Berlin riots affect on SU 9959104 https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1302956926 Soviet police blocked all roads into their sector out of for fear of West Berliners joining the East riots ]]> 2021-03-12 15:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/9964100/8rsw9zrde812179d/wish/1302956926