I’m talking about the Berlin Blockade - the attempt by Stalin to take over the allied occupied West Berlin by starving its two million citizens. Stalin assumed that the allies would cede control over Berlin rather than watch it starve or that the populace would surrender in order to get food, electricity and coal from the East.
The occupied zones in Germany were temporary. They were never there to simply cede territory. Stalin however wanted not just a communist Germany, but a Soviet one. He knew where Berlin went, Germany went, so he tried to get the allies to give it up.
It wasn’t an invasion, but it was an attack. It was such a huge crisis that Winston Churchill wanted the United States to nuke Russia over it. Instead, we sent upwards of 1,400 cargo planes a day to West Berlin to supply its citizens for nearly a year.
