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Note: This game, while based in fact, involves a measure of speculation.
The advisers are fictional.
You are Joseph Stalin. It is 1949, and it is becoming clear that your blockade of Berlin has been an overwhelming failure. The British-American airlift has succeeded in supplying enough food and coal to maintain the city for nearly a year -- and there are no signs of it slowing anytime soon. Perhaps more important, the blockade has been a public relations disaster: Your intelligence agents tell you that it may be pushing other European nations toward a formal U.S.-European strategic alliance. Meanwhile, the West's counter-blockade of coal, steel and machine tools is beginning to hurt. If you lift the blockade, you risk losing face by backing down. If you don't, you risk a continuing counter-blockade and further damage to your international image. If you extend the blockade to the air, you could end the airlift -- or start World War III. What do you do?
General
Foreign
Ministry
Communist
Party
Click on an adviser for guidance.
Lift the blockade
Continue the blockade
Extend the blockade
