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The following lists events that happened during 1948 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Incumbents
Events
- Joseph Stalin sends the first advisers to China in an effort to repair the economic damage brought on by years of civil war.[1]
- At the request of Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin Sends railroad construction expert I.V. Kovalev with a team of 300 engineers and laborers to repair deteriorated or destroyed Manchurian railways.[1]
- March 10 – Extreme restrictions are placed on German traffic from the Soviet Zone into Berlin.[2]
- June 24 – The Soviets implement a total blockade of all ground and water transport into or out of Berlin. The blockade will last nearly a full year, ending May 12, 1949.[2]
Births
- 16 July - Mariia Stefiuk[3]
Deaths
- 11 February – Sergei Eisenstein, film director (born 1898)
- 31 August – Andrei Zhdanov, Second Secretary of the CPSU (born 1896)
- 25 October – Boris Fomin, musician (born 1900)
See also
References
- 1 2 Kaple, Deborah. "Soviet and Chinese Comrades Look Back at the Friendship Decade." Modern Chinese Studies 22.1 (2014): 45–69. Web. 29 Jan. 2015.
- 1 2 Pennacchio, Charles F. "The East German Communists and the Origins of the Berlin Blockade Crisis." East European Quarterly 29.3 (1995): 293–315. Web. 28 Jan. 2015.
- ↑ "Стефюк, Мария Юрьевна" [Stefiuk, Maria Yurievna]. TASS (in Russian). Retrieved 5 July 2022.
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