got their own interpretation, or propaganda, of the event.
             President Truman says in 1949, "We refused to be forced out of the city of Berlin. We demonstrated to the people of Europe that we would act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened. Politically it brought the people of Western Europe closer to us. The Berlin blockade was a move to test our ability and our will to resist."
             And a Soviet commentary on the crisis, quoted in P
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