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Tank Standoff at Checkpoint Charlie

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Germans and the Allies - What Clay Underestimated

Military police, not members of the british parliament, were sent over to rescue him and pull him back from the soviet control zone. He was then taken on a grand tour of central east berlin - just to put one up to the east jones say, well, we're here. And it took probabl about 36 hours for the kremlin to respond. This was clay obviously trying to push the envelope and see how far will these guys go if they really mean business. Then i've really got to do what i really want to do, which is put the tanks in and really press their buttons. Is kind of mushroomed into this big stand where the world's

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