The Berlin blockade was where Stalin shut off all communication/transport routes between the West and West Berlin. He did this in an attempt to starve West Berlin and to try to gain power over it; as he ruled over the over half of Berlin, and also saw a prosperous Germany in the West as a threat to the USSR. It also disobeyed the terms of Yalta and Potsdam. Stalin closed off the roads so that they were low on food, electricity and also gas. At this time, in Europe, although World War 2 was over, there was still a great deal of tension concerning Germany and how the Western allies and the communist countries wanted to deal with it. In the winter of 1948-49; people living in Berlin lived on dried potatoes, powdered eggs and cans of meat and they
