For five years, the Russians had lulled Vienna (a city which likes to be lulled) into a sense of false security. Vienna, like Berlin, is under four-power occupation and lies deep inside the Russian occupation zone of Austria; but the Russians, content to plunder Austria's wealth, never tried to blockade the city and made relatively little trouble in other ways. Seemingly they did not even have much to do with Austria's Communist Party. A good many Austrians had concluded that their Russians were different. Last week, Vienna bitterly learned that Reds are Reds.
Recently, ECA officials in Austria decided that...
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