The Russian efforts then were based on German unification on Soviet terms. Their demands were for a united -Germany that would fit into the Communist bloc of Eastern Europe. The people of West Germany were immunized against Soviet demands of that kind to subvert them. They were exhausted by the war. They had seen the excesses of the Soviet occupation in the Eastern Zone which had driven millions of refugees into the West. And they were protected by the Allied armies of .occupation. as evidenced by the success of the Berlin airlift. The Russian demands for German unification on Soviet terms got nowhere.
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