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Because Russia had taken over East Berlin, the supplies coming from West Berlin to East Berlin had been cut off, leaving the people in East Berlin with virtually no supplies. The Berlin Airlift was then enacted as a sort of brinkmanship as well as to give East Berliners their items.

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