https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr Sophie Figler and Maggie Lewis en-us 2021-03-10 14:31:25 UTC 2024-05-27 13:53:13 UTC hello@padlet.com 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293125520 2021-03-10 14:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293125520 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293129145 2021-03-10 14:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293129145 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293132126 2021-03-10 14:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293132126 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293149532 2021-03-10 14:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293149532 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293164931 "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"]]> 2021-03-10 14:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293164931 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293185087 "Capitalism devours everything"]]> 2021-03-10 14:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293185087 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293187276 "The capitalists will take your work back to their place, where labor is cheap and unemployment high."]]> 2021-03-10 14:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293187276 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293203854 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)]]> 2021-03-10 14:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293203854 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293219576 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. ]]> 2021-03-10 14:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293219576 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293231796 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.]]> 2021-03-10 14:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293231796 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293261272 "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"]]> 2021-03-10 14:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293261272 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293276323 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]]> 2021-03-10 15:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293276323 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293284198 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.]]> 2021-03-10 15:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293284198 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293294626 "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"]]> 2021-03-10 15:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293294626 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293314279 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. ]]> 2021-03-10 15:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293314279 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293349206 "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'"]]> 2021-03-10 15:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293349206 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293376078 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]]> 2021-03-10 15:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293376078 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293413196 "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."]]> 2021-03-10 15:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293413196 9958997 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293430480 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 ]]> 2021-03-10 15:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293430480 9960896 https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293446487 2021-03-10 15:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/9958997/i8eya37ifygxy7xr/wish/1293446487