"The Russian strategy can be seen at work on many fronts. In Austria the Russians claim 50% of all
Austrian industry. In Paris they fight for an arrangement that will allow Yugoslavia to dominate Trieste. In
Berlin they carry on a continued press campaign against the Western world but ban our newspapers
from the sector if they contain the slightest criticism of Soviet policy. They control the University of
Berlin because it is in their sector and impose rigid political tests upon the student body, but they also
control the schools of all sectors through the domination of the Berlin Magistrate, established before
our entrance.
Thus far, it has been impossible to eliminate their Communist textbooks from the western sectors. They
always appeal to the Potsdam accord when it serves their ends and violate it when it suits their
purposes. Their officers travel in our zone, marking factory equipment for dismantlement and shipment
to Russia. But what they do in their zone is shrouded in mystery and there is some evidence that they
are setting this equipment up, not in Russia but in Russian Germany. With millions of troops spread
through the whole of Eastern Europe, they are now engaged in a press campaign against Western
armies of occupation."
*an agreement reached between the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union regarding
the administration and occupation of Germany following the Second World War
-
Reinhold Niebuhr, United States theologian and political commentator, "The Fight for Germany."
article published in Life magazine, 1946
A. By pointing out the hypocrisy of Soviet policies, he hoped to encourage a more
confrontational stance on the part of the United States government.

B. By recounting Soviet appropriation of German industrial equipment, he wished to
demonstrate the backwardness of Soviet economic development.

C. By emphasizing the geographic extent of Soviet occupation, he wished to show that
Soviet troops were dangerously overextended.

D. By describing the effectiveness of Soviet information and press policies, he hoped to
encourage the United States government to imitate them.