This is an odd Polish Communist propaganda movie on the opening of the border between East and West Berlin at the end of the Berlin Airlift.
Is the celebrating crowd in East or West Belin?
http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/5060?
Google translation
About the movie
So on the streets of Berlin. Opening ceremony of the city limits.
Editors: Olga Borzechowa
Commentary: Władysław Korycki
Editing: Wacław Kaźmierczak
Topic number: 8
Event: opening of the borders between east and west Berlin
Action time: 1949
Place of action: Berlin
Production: Polish State Film Company
Foreign Exchange: Pathe
Rights: WFDIF
Sound format: mono
Frame format: 4: 3
Sequence description
00: 00: 00: 00 The board: "FROM AROUND THE WORLD".
00: 00: 06: 12 The inscription: "BERLIN". Crowd on the city square.
00: 00: 26: 00 Border post with the inscription "Soviet zone Sowjetische zone".
00: 00: 30: 08 The opening ceremony of the Berlin borders.
00: 00: 41: 00 Watch.
00: 00: 51: 09Adjuster in control room.
00: 00: 55: 02Locomotive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_BlockadeThe Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin.
The Western Allies organised the Berlin airlift (26 June 1948 – 30 September 1949) to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the size of the city's population.[1][2]
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On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin, although for a time the American and British continued to supply the city by air anyway because they were worried that the Soviets were simply going to resume the blockade and were only trying to disrupt western supply lines. The Berlin Airlift officially ended on 30 September 1949 after fifteen months.
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End of the blockade[edit]
On 15 April 1949, the Soviet news agency TASS reported a willingness by the Soviets to lift the blockade. The next day, the US State Department stated that the "way appears clear" for the blockade to end. Soon afterwards, the four powers began serious negotiations, and a settlement was reached on Western terms. On 4 May 1949, the Allies announced an agreement to end the blockade in eight days.
The Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted at one minute after midnight on 12 May 1949.[9] A British convoy immediately drove through to Berlin, and the first train from West Germany reached Berlin at 5:32 A.M. Later that day, an enormous crowd celebrated the end of the blockade. General Clay, whose retirement had been announced by US President Truman on 3 May 1949, was saluted by 11,000 US soldiers and dozens of aircraft. Once home, Clay received a ticker tape parade in New York City, was invited to address the US Congress, and was honoured with a medal from President Truman.
