Stalin lifts the blockade
1949 · Event
At one minute past midnight the lights come on and the first convoys roll into West Berlin: after 322 days Stalin concedes the bet, having gained nothing and driven the West into NATO. The airlift keeps flying until September to build a reserve — 2.3 million tonnes in all, at the cost of 101 lives.
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