The Berlin Blockade certainly confirmed the intensity to which the Soviet Union would pursue its own policy objectives. It followed a series of complicated events that further broke down the possibility of negotiating. The Soviets were using the police to make the role of the elected city officials, who would not bow to Moscow, impossible and disrupted campaigns.19 The United States wanted to move forward with making Germany independent and self-sufficient, but the Soviets proved impossible demanding complete control of issues like currency. This led the Western powers to discuss policy in their zones jointly in London without the Soviet Union. The very thought of an independent Western Germany was opposite to the Soviets goals. All this culminated
