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Reply #80 on:
December 16, 2004, 02:19:57 PM
What is the name of the famous place in Berlin where shortly before the building of the Berlin wall American and Soviet tanks were facing each other, waiting for the order to unleash WW3. And what was the cause of this?
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Reply #81 on:
December 16, 2004, 03:05:49 PM
The cause of the crisis was Stalin's blockade of West Berlin.
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Reply #82 on:
December 16, 2004, 03:06:45 PM
The place was the Brandenburg gate
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Reply #83 on:
December 16, 2004, 05:24:02 PM
sorry Nick. Both is wrong. Stalin didn't live anymore by the time we are talking about.
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Reply #84 on:
December 17, 2004, 10:25:03 AM
So this occured in 1954, then?
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Reply #85 on:
December 17, 2004, 12:26:26 PM
later
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Reply #86 on:
December 17, 2004, 12:29:24 PM
Can you tell me the year?
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Reply #87 on:
December 17, 2004, 12:36:25 PM
I already gave a crucial and direct hint on the time in the opening of the riddle.
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shortly before the building of the Berlin wall
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Reply #88 on:
December 17, 2004, 12:49:16 PM
The closing of the German border?
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Reply #89 on:
December 17, 2004, 01:21:32 PM
Sorry, I need to correct myself. The incidence I was refering to took place a few month AFTER the building of the Berlin Wall and the closing of the border.
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Reply #90 on:
December 17, 2004, 01:27:40 PM
Would that be the shooting of a person trying to cross the Wall/
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Reply #91 on:
December 17, 2004, 01:32:06 PM
Nope. Remember, we are talking of American and Soviet tanks facing each other on a certain spot in Berlin.
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Reply #92 on:
December 17, 2004, 01:43:29 PM
I give up. The only timre I've read of American and Russian tanks facing each other was during the Berlin Blockade.
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Reply #93 on:
December 17, 2004, 03:47:28 PM
Did they even get to the point of facing each other in tanks during the time of the blockade and the airlift? I'm not sure about that.
Here is a picture taken in 1961 that might help you. It shows the Point I'm talking about with American tanks in the fore- and Soviet tanks in the background.
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Reply #94 on:
December 19, 2004, 04:50:21 AM
This place by the way has an English name. If you could read the signs on the picture (which are to small here) you would know the place.
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Reply #95 on:
December 21, 2004, 11:23:55 AM
Yes, the two sides faced off on the outskirts of Berlin.
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Reply #96 on:
December 21, 2004, 02:33:51 PM
Actually at this place I'm talking of, which is shown on the picture, they don't face on the outskirts of Berlin, but pretty close to the center of the city.
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December 21, 2004, 06:39:02 PM
Mauerstrasse, or 'wall street'?
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Reply #98 on:
December 21, 2004, 07:05:19 PM
No, I don't even know that there is a Mauerstra?e in Berlin (though I sure know the Wallstreet
) Remember that the point has an English name.
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December 22, 2004, 02:11:13 PM
I looked at a map of berlin and Mauerstrasse is about 4 or 5 blocks from the Reichstag.
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