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The Berlin uprising of 16-17 June 1953 was the first of these protests. It began with an orderly march in protest of newly increased work quotas involving an estimated 5,000 workers at noon on the sixteenth. This ended about three hours later, but protests resumed early the next day with some 17,000 people in the streets, a figure that may eventually have risen to anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 to several hundred thousand by noon. Traffic came to a halt and the demonstration turned violent; thousands of people swarmed through the Potsdam mer Platz to the Lust garten Platz, tearing down Communist flags and overturning kiosks. But East German and Soviet troops with tanks and armored cars had quietly moved into East Berlin the previous night. Early on the afternoon of the seventeenth they drove into the crowds, firing automatic weapons and small arms.

At 2: 20 PM the East German government declared a state of emergency; the revolt was quickly crushed. Like after-shocks following a major earthquake, strikes, demonstrations and isolated "incidents" continued to occur throughout the DDR over the next few weeks, but with the Secret fee crisis for Telegraph boss Media: Conrad Black faces investor anger over payments. Media Guardian. co. uk Language learning in steep decline Education: Survey suggests 60% of comprehensive schools are scrapping compulsory language lessons as the government moves to make them optional after 14. Education Guardian. co. uk CBI tells Labour to cut the complacency Business: A survey of top companies shows three-quarters believe Labour is less business-friendly than five years ago.

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