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"Zur Erinnerung an den Aufstand des siebzehnten Juni Neunzehnhundertdreiundfuenfzig.
Wolfgang Rueppel
16.Juni 2000
Senatsverwaltung fuer Stadtentwicklung
Kunst im Stadtraum"
The Uprising of 1953 in East Germany took place in June 1953. A strike by East Berlin construction workers on June 16 turned into a widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government the next day. The uprising in Berlin was violently suppressed by tanks of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei.