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...whine of bullets echoed in the hollow ruins. Deep in the Russian sector, Red mob violence had finally pushed Berlin's government to the city's Western half. But on this side, the people rose some 300,000 strong to shout their defiance of the Reds in one cf the greatest voluntary mass meetings in German history...
First involved were the thousands pouring through the massive Doric columns of the Brandenburger Tor on their way to homes in the Russian sector. An open truck carrying some dozen Soviet-sector police drove towards them up Unter den Linden-apparently dispatched with the vague intent of keeping order. The crowd jeered them; rocks followed jeers and the melée began...
...crowd back. (One British officer came running with his camera, and a Berliner watching him snapped bitterly: "How typical! The Russians come with machine guns and the British with their cameras!") The riots ended with only one dead-a 15-year-old boy shot through the groin by Soviet-sector police...
Early in the week, portly, rosy-cheeked Veteran Communist Wilhelm Pieck called the signals for the Reds at a meeting of party functionaries in the Russian sector's Friedrichsstadt Palace. He confessed that the airlift was hurting the Red cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure...
...drab drama was relieved by a few comic touches-such as the Soviet sector police's fatuous pretense of defending the building. As some of the crowd began to push prematurely against the iron gates, one cop stubbornly stuck to the timetable given him in advance. With a meticulous obedience that was very German and very Communist at the same time, he said: "No, you finish singing the Internationale and then...