The US did not "fix" the elections. They did finance the DC campaign, just as the Soviet Union financed the FDP campaign. In the preceding 1946 elections, the

The US did not "fix" the elections. They did finance the DC campaign, just as the Soviet Union financed the FDP campaign. In the preceding 1946 elections, the Communists got 19% and the Socialists got 20%, for a total of 39%. In the 1948 elections, FDP (Communists + part of Socialists) got 31%, while the rest of the Socialists (including the man who was the leader of the Socialists in the previous elections) got 7%, for a total of 38%. In the following 1953 elections, the Communists got 23%, the Socialists (who broke out of the failed FDP alliance) got 13%, for a total of 36%. So we have 39% -> 38% -> 36%. You are arguing that the expected mid-point of that series would have been 51%, had it not been for the US fixing the elections. That is a Reptilian-level conspiracy theory.