Burning communist flag during East Berlin uprising

Jun. 06, 1978 - 25 years ago (1953) Revolt in East Berlin/GDR: In the Federal Republic of Germany 17 June has been declared as a national public holiday - it is the day of the insurrection in East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic, 25 years ago. Produced by spontaneous protest strikes and demonstrations in East Berlin on June 16th 1953 against the retention of the employment norm increase, which had been decided one month before, on June 17th there and in numerous central German industrial towns and also in rural territories took place riots (liberal and the like): one demanded the resignation of the government and options. At midday martial law was imposed and till the evening the unarmed revolt was put down by the people's police and Soviet tanks. The revolt on June 17th, 1953 resulted in some hundred deaths, not only of demonstrators, but also more than a hundred functionaries of the SED regime and several soldiers of the Red Army. Photo Shows Workers of East Berlin who brought down the Communist red flag from the Brandenburg Gate and burned it to the applause of the demonstrating crowd

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