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We are here in the area 1948/49 systems.

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Cold War systems means here

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the two great powers are facing each other.

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On one side the Soviet Union,

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on the other side the United States,

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not waging a hot war against each other,

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but trying to expand their spheres of influence

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around the world.

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This is especially true in Europe and Asia.

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In Germany it was so 1948/49

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a new currency was introduced.

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The Soviet Union reacted immediately.

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It blockaded West Berlin with the aim

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of eventually expanding West Berlin,

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so to speak, for its own sphere of power.

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The West reacted with a so-called airlift.

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You see behind me two airplanes,

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one of them a so-called raisin bomber.

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With these bombers, food and other supplies

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were brought to West Berlin

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in order to save West Berlin for the West as well.

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The other alternative would have been a warlike alternative.

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That's what the fighter plane they see above me is for,

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the one with 15 Korean plates.

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That was in fact the solution,

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if you can call it a solution,

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as they tried to do in Korea, namely to gain

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influence on the Korean peninsula warlike via a proxy war.

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Therefore, Korea was a central issue in East Germany

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as well as in West Germany.

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There were numerous campaigns where people said

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We want to prevent something like

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Korea from happening in Europe.

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There were posters, notices, quotes, for example,

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a poster from the East that Dresden I will become Korea.

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Or campaigns in the West, where they tried

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to promote more strongly the anti-communist struggle.

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Up to something strange thing

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that a West Berlin clairvoyant has been asked,

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how she estimates it,

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whether something like in Korea is also possible in Germany.

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And she reassured her West Berlin readers

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with the fact that it will not come to

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a warlike confrontation in Berlin.