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A bit sobering that there is a target right in the center of Berlin with several other targets in close vicinity - a mere 7 years after the Berlin Airlift. I gu
by xg15 3y ago
A bit sobering that there is a target right in the center of Berlin with several other targets in close vicinity - a mere 7 years after the Berlin Airlift. I guess the US compassion for Berliners did have limits after all.
- hnu234 3y ago> I guess the US compassion for Berliners did have limits after all. I think the indiscriminate firebombing and targeting of german civilians in ww2 showed there is no such thing as 'US compassion'. It was calculated propaganda.
- ivan_gammel 3y agoThat would include US citizen too. They probably just realistically looked at the survival chances of West Berlin in case of full scale war. Soviets were confident that with conventional warfare they would reach the Channel in mere weeks, nuclear was really the only deterrent.
- wolverine876 3y agoThe war was going to be there. Should NATO not attack invading Soviet forces? Then they'd be in a safe zone all the way to the Atlantic.