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commanders announced that death sentences had been GRECHKO TARASOV
carried out against the organizers of the disturbances  Correct. General of the Army SHTEMENKO
(seven persons in all). 18 June 1953, 12.00 p.m. [midnight]55
[Source: AVP RF, f. 82, op. 41, por. 93, p. 280, ll. 13-15. [Source: AGSh, f. 16, op. 3139, d. 155, ll. 26-27. Provided and
Translated by Benjamin Aldrich-Moodie (CWIHP).] translated by Viktor Gobarev.]
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[The following is an excerpt from a telephonogram sent by factory, Erfurt district, struck. The strike lasted for about
V. Semenov and V. Sokolovskii in Berlin to V. Molotov and one hour. There was a short partial strike at the factory
N. Bulganin on 19 June 1953 (received in Moscow at 1:20  Lova (city of Gotha). In Erfurt workers in the  RFT
a.m.) reporting on the situation in East Germany on the factory (800 persons) struck during the morning, putting
evening of 18 June 1953.] forward the demands - announce the names of those who
were shot in Berlin; we do not want war.
 We are reporting on the situation in Berlin and the The organizers of the disturbances, seeing the failure
GDR on 18 June 1953 at 9:00 p.m. (Berlin time). of public speeches [vystuplenii] in Berlin and the large
In the course of the day on 18 June the liquidation of cities, are scattering their agents in small cities and
the remains of the nodes of strikes and disturbances villages where our troops are not stationed, trying to incite
continued in Berlin and the GDR. In the streets of Berlin, strikes and disturbances there. In particular, the fact has
full order was restored. There were no efforts to organize been established that enemy provocateurs have been sent
demonstrations or public addresses in the streets. The from Potsdam to small cities, and also that enemy activists
larger portion of the workers who were striking yesterday have been scattered from enterprises in large cities, where
returned to work. Short partial strikes affected a small strikes have ended, to factories located in small villages
number of Berlin enterprises. On average, about 50-70% and cities, where the German police is weak and our troops
of workers worked in the enterprises. This is also ex- are not present. We are taking counter-measures, above all
plained by the fact that workers living in West Berlin could by mobilizing and sending activists of the SED and
not come to work because of the halting of movement organizers from the districts and large centers to these
across the sector border. localities.
The organs of the MfS of the GDR and our forces In the district of Magdeburg strikes have started in the
continued to expose the ring-leaders of yesterday s strikes. population centers of Staflfurt (about 1500 workers),
The necessary arrests were made. The state and party Wernigerode (1500-2000 persons), [and] Burg (300-400
organs of the GDR are taking measures to restore the persons).
normal organization of work at all enterprises in East In the district of Halle, strikes are continuing in the
Berlin. The supply of food and indispensable goods to the Mansfeld copper-smelting complex, at the factory  Ifa
populace is being achieved without interruption. (up to 1000 persons), the boiler factory (1500-2000), and
In the majority of the Republic s regions, order has strikes have begun at some enterprises and mines in the
been restored. Short strikes took place in individual regions of Sangerhausen, Eisleben.
enterprises in the Rostock, Erfurt, Leipzig, Halle, and In Berlin at almost every factory, normal order has
Dresden districts. The overwhelming majority of the been restored. Only at isolated enterprises are cases of
workers who were on strike yesterday returned to work. partial strikes taking place.
An enemy demonstration of about one thousand people, In Berlin and in the Republic no efforts are being
who headed for the jail and the railway, was organized in made to conduct demonstrations. Everywhere, normal life [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]