https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70 Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC 2025-10-30 03:01:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798929 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798929 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798937 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798937 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798941 By: Emily Shupe, Riley Skinner, Olivia Keys, Christy Elliott]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798941 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798967 "As a result of the uprising, the rules of the Soviet Union and East Germany were forced to place greater emphasis on consolidation of the Communist Regime" (Baras)]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798967 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798989 "He [Bahr] had agreed to broadcast the strikers' demands-they wanted lower work quotas, lower food prices, and free elections, among other things- and he had continued to do so until the radio's America controller, Gordon Ewing, burst into his office and told him to stop: 'Do you want to start World War Three?' Ewing told Bahr that American responsibility and American security guarantees ended at the border, and he'd better be clear about that in his broadcasts" (Applebaum 439). ]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798989 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798992 "In the world of... Soviet government design... security was, to be found, not in mutual trust and mutual aid but in force: huge armies, subversion, rule of neighbor countries. The goal was power superiority at all cost. Security was to be sought by denying it to all others"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BytlVCNy_F0fQ2NHZ2RsYjM2M1BvYWNpcW1HWWYtS1RkQ09B/view]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798992 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798994 Baras, Victor. “Stalin's German Policy after Stalin.” Slavic Review, vol. 37, no. 2, 1978, pp. 259–267. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2497604. Accessed 10 Mar. 2021.]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798994 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798996 "it seemed impossible for any of them to fill Stalin’s shoes. In any case, they wanted to prevent the rise of another dictator because they feared for their personal security; they had every reason to fear and distrust one another" (Kenez). 

As the Soviet Union recognized the weakness within the nation without Stalin, East Germany was able to rise. The Soviet Union saw the insecurity and panic within their own country which was then viewed by the United states, allowing the East German rise. ]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302798996 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799001 Berlin riots - Soviet troops are the aggressors]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799001 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799011 Both Powers were at each others' throats, just increasing tension]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799011 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799014 "According to available data, the increase in the number of defections to the West is explained not only by increased hostile propaganda among the GDR inhabitants carried out by West German organs, but also by the desire of various groups of peasants to avoid entering into agricultural industry cooperatives currently being organized, by fears among the small and middle-size private businessmen that their personal property and assets will be confiscated, by the desire among a number of youth to avoid serving in the GDR armed forces, and by the difficulties experienced in the GDR with regard to the supply food and merchandise available to the inhabitants" ]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799014 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799016 "Memorandum from Lavrentiy Beria to the CPSU CC Presidium regarding Mass Defections from the GDR, 6 May 1953," May 06, 1953, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, SVRA file 3581, vol. 7; published as facsimile (in Russian) in David E. Murphy, Sergei Kondrashev, and George Bailey, "Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 157. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/110409

]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799016 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799020 "The capitalists will take your work back to their place, where labor is cheap and unemployment high" 

Speaks on U.S. manipulation and ideology which led to uprising ]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799020 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799042 Soviet dominance over East Germany]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799042 9959142 https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799049 Link/Citation for Soviet view on Capitalism visual source ]]> 2021-03-12 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/9959142/y8h7ma6cjj608t70/wish/1302799049