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	Podcast:		Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze
	Episode:		The East German Uprising
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:13:36
	Publish Date:		2016-07-14 11:15:00
	Description:		On June 17 1953, East German workers went on strike and demanded free elections. Within hours, Moscow ordered its tanks to crush the rebellion. Bridget hears the story of that day, as experienced by a teenage boy, a young worker, a trainee lawyer, an English military driver - and a girl who was looking forward to her seventh birthday party. With Hardy Firl, George Flint, Carla Ottmann, Joachim Rudolph, Alfred Wegewitz Producers: Phil Tinline and Sabine Schereck.
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