In October 1949. Soviet puppet communists in East Berlin declared the Soviet Occupation zone of Germany to be the German Democratic Republic (the USSR formally recognized the GDR by treaty in 1955). June 17. 1953. Soviet occupation troops brutally suppressed widespread strikes and riots in East Berlin and other East German cities and restored the power of the Ulbricht regime. In 1961. to cut off the mass flight of refugees to the West. the East German regime erected the concrete and barbed wire Berlin Wall of Shame. Twenty Soviet Divisions remain stationed in East Germany. 4. Eastern Czechoslovakia What the U.S.S.R.
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