At Nürnberg, the Russians were plugging a vengeful justice; everywhere else in Germany, they were plugging Communism. While Russian prosecutors fiercely denounced Germany's war criminals, Red Army officers staged an all-out campaign for druzhba (friendship) with the Germans:
¶ When delegates from trade unions in the Russian zone held their first congress last week, Colonel Sergei Tulpanov pointedly welcomed them to Berlin, "the heart and capital of Germany." The delegates cheered wildly, for there was anxiety in Germany that, if the French had their way, the capital might be removed from Prussian Berlin.
¶ Germany's Communist...
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