Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze   /     The East German Uprising

Description

On June 17 1953, East German workers went on strike and demanded free elections. Within hours, Moscow ordered its tanks to crush the rebellion. Bridget hears the story of that day, as experienced by a teenage boy, a young worker, a trainee lawyer, an English military driver - and a girl who was looking forward to her seventh birthday party. With Hardy Firl, George Flint, Carla Ottmann, Joachim Rudolph, Alfred Wegewitz Producers: Phil Tinline and Sabine Schereck.

Subtitle
Bridget Kendall tells the forgotten story of the Cold War's first anti-communist revolt.
Duration
816
Publishing date
2016-07-14 00:00
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07k01bv
Contributors
  BBC Radio 4
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Enclosures
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p042rhc1.mp3
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