Vladi glanced anxiously at General Sokolov. What would he do now? Harris had set the stage with his rude walking out of the meeting, clearly showing how little the Americans cared about their other allies.
Stalin wanted the other occupying powers out of Berlin, because they were a constant threat to the safety of the Soviet Union. Their only reason to stay on was Berlin’s location in the middle of the Soviet zone, which gave them an ideal position to spy on the Russians and to advance their secessionist plans for the rest of Germany.
Everyone knew that the British and Americans hated the Russians for their guts and their better economic system that was so far superior to the predatory capitalism in their own countries. Now they wanted to bring Germany on their side and then attack the So
