Status Updates From The Dancing Bear

Did not realize this was based on real events.

“Planes droned over day and night—Skymasters, B.E.A. liners, Dakotas, Lancasters, Tudors—and the air was noisy with their engines as they brought in more and more food and fuel to the blockaded city. Fear lent strength to the Berliners in their determination to resist the Russian campaign. They minded the new food shortage less because everyone was in the same boat…”

“Frau Altmann was upset and agitated one day at receiving a letter from her youngest sister in Breslau... This letter…told Frau Altmann that her brother-in-law had been taken away from his home for “work for the Soviet Five Year Plan,” and that she and the two children were in a pretty poor way. The brother-in-law was a scientist, apparently a very useful one to the Russians.”

“The other three Powers, tired of their fruitless efforts to come to an agreement with Russia, had formed a tripartite administration in place of the former quadripartite at the A.C.A., and the new currency was the result. The electricity plant for the city unfortunately lay in the Russian sector, and the angry Russians plunged the other sectors into darkness.”

“The Berliners, although outwardly calm, were now brought up with a shock to realize what the closing of the corridor connecting them with Western Germany could mean. They were thrust into further despair. The last year had shown a slow improvement in many things.”