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A British cartoon depicting Stalin’s frustration at the airlift. The pro-Soviet press in East Berlin mocked the Allied airlift as a futile exercise, claiming it would fail within days or weeks. Instead, the Berlin airlift, like the Marshall Plan, became an important propaganda victory for the United States and its allies. One poster, produced ...
Image. In July 1948, as the Soviet authorities impose the Berlin Blockade, British cartoonist Ernest Howard Shepard takes an ironic look at the vain attempts by Moscow to put an end to the airlift organised by the Western Allies in order to bring supplies to West Berlin.
On 27 September 1948, British cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth emphasises the effectiveness of the airlift bringing supplies to the Western sectors of Berlin, temporarily isolated by the blockade imposed by the Soviet forces on 24 June 1948.
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Jul 2, 2017 · Cartoon by Illingworth on the Berlin Blockade (27 September 1948) Image On 27 September 1948, British cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth emphasises the effectiveness of the airlift bringing supplies to the Western sectors of Berlin, temporarily isolated by the blockade imposed by the Soviet forces on 24 June 1948.
In June 1948 the Soviet Union, whose territory fully surrounded the capital, cut off all ground traffic into and out of West Berlin in an attempt to force the Allies to abandon the city. The blockade of Berlin had begun. President Truman suddenly faced a crisis.
Berlin Blockade | A Visual Guide to the Cold War. Home / Decade / 1940 / Berlin Blockade. Berlin Blockade, effort by USSR to cut off W. Berlin from Western World. Herbert, B. (1949, May 5). “Shall we lift the mental blockades too?” [Cartoon] Herbert L. Block collection (Library of Congress).
