The Soviets blockaded Berlin by rail and road in 1948

Evidence

Above all, Berlin was itself an occupied city. It was occupied by anxiety and want, by the rival foreign powers, and especially by fear of the Soviet Union. A couple of months after Sartre and Beauvoir left, Soviet forces swooped and cut off all supplies coming into the western side of Berlin. In March 1948 they blocked the railway lines, and in June they cut off the roads. They set out to starve Berlin into submission, just as the Germans had starved Leningrad during the war. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 653

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cold War competition with the Soviets made domestic racism a national security liability — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 465

Broader Connections

• Cold War competition with the Soviets made domestic racism a national security liability #complicates (0.72) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 465