We are here in the area 1948/49 systems.
Cold War systems means here
the two great powers are facing each other.
On one side the Soviet Union,
on the other side the United States,
not waging a hot war against each other,
but trying to expand their spheres of influence
around the world.
This is especially true in Europe and Asia.
In Germany it was so 1948/49
a new currency was introduced.
The Soviet Union reacted immediately.
It blockaded West Berlin with the aim
of eventually expanding West Berlin,
so to speak, for its own sphere of power.
The West reacted with a so-called airlift.
You see behind me two airplanes,
one of them a so-called raisin bomber.
With these bombers, food and other supplies
were brought to West Berlin
in order to save West Berlin for the West as well.
The other alternative would have been a warlike alternative.
That's what the fighter plane they see above me is for,
the one with 15 Korean plates.
That was in fact the solution,
if you can call it a solution,
as they tried to do in Korea, namely to gain
influence on the Korean peninsula warlike via a proxy war.
Therefore, Korea was a central issue in East Germany
as well as in West Germany.
There were numerous campaigns where people said
We want to prevent something like
Korea from happening in Europe.
There were posters, notices, quotes, for example,
a poster from the East that Dresden I will become Korea.
Or campaigns in the West, where they tried
to promote more strongly the anti-communist struggle.
Up to something strange thing
that a West Berlin clairvoyant has been asked,
how she estimates it,
whether something like in Korea is also possible in Germany.
And she reassured her West Berlin readers
with the fact that it will not come to
a warlike confrontation in Berlin.