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On the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift on Sunday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius hailed the Allies’ robust stance against Soviet intimidation, and called for international solidarity in the present day too. “The airlift showed how important it is to do the right thing,” Pistorius told a ceremony at the Berlin Airlift Memorial in the German capital. “If our partners had just shrugged their shoulders or argued that the costs were too high and the risks too great, Berlin would very probably have been finished,” he said of the resistance to Moscow’s blockade of the city in 1948-49….

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