USSR
and East Germany
HEast Germany (the German Democratic Republic, or GDR), constituted as a sovereign state in 1949, remained of special concern to Moscow.
HIn
June 1953 Soviet troops helped
put down a rebellion of
workers in East Berlin.
HThousands of East Germans continued to flee through the divided city of Berlin.
HIn
August 1961 the Soviet Union
and the East German government
built the infamous
Berlin Wall.
