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June 17, 1953	Secret Radio Telegram from Vladimir Semyonov Providing Situation Report to Vyacheslav Molotov and Nikolai Bulganin Semyonov gave an account of the happenings on the morning of 17 June 1953 in East Berlin and the GDR emphasizing that the most serious situation was in the city of Goerlitz on the German-Polish border where some 30,000 destroyed SED offices, the prison, and the buildings of the security service and district committee.
June 17, 1953	Situation Report from Andrei Grechko and Nikolai Tarasov to Nikolai Bulganin, received 6:30 p.m. Moscow Time (4:30 CET) Grechko and Tarasov describe how Soviet forces took back control over the situation in East Berlin and several other GDR cities in the afternoon of 17 June 1953.
June 17, 1953	Situation Report from Vladimir Semyonov and Andrei Grechko to Vyacheslav Molotov and Nikolai Bulganin, 7:26 a.m. Vladimir Semyonov and Andrei Grechko were reporting on the situation in Berlin towards the close of 16 June.
June 2, 1953	USSR Council of Ministers Order, 'On Measures to Improve the Health of the Political Situation in the GDR' Council of Ministers of the USSR Order to improve the political and economic situation in GDR
June 17, 1953	Report from A. Grechko and Tarasov in Berlin to N.A. Bulganin, 11:00 p.m. The demonstrations in Berlin and several other cities had been stopped. Grechko and Tarasow came to the conclusion that "the provocation was prepared in advance, organized, and directed from Western sectors of Berlin." The losses of the strikers in the whole territory of the GDR had been: 84 people killed and wounded, 700 men arrested.
June 18, 1953	Report from A. Grechko and Tarasov to N.A. Bulganin, 2:30 p.m. The authors state that Berlin was calm, but there were a few demonstrations in some smaller GDR cities. The authors referred to military intelligence information according to which the US 7th Army and the 12th Air Force Army were put on alert in the US zone at 5.30 a.m. on June 18. But the alert state for the 7th Army was canceled after three hours.
September 8, 1953	Radio Free Europe Report on the Strikes in Plzen during Early June 1953 Account of a 31-year-old locksmith who took part in the protests in Plzen.
June 2, 1953	Otto Grotewohl’s Notes on Meetings between East German and Soviet Leaders in Moscow Consulations between Soviet and GDR leaders to improve the economic situation in GDR
June 17, 1953	Cable from Czechoslovak Mission in Berlin to Vaclav David, 1:45 PM The Czechoslovak Mission in Berlin described the proceeding of the demonstrations in East Berlin on 17 June 17.
June 17, 1953	Report from A. Grechko and Tarasov in Berlin to N.A. Bulganin, 6:30 p.m. In the Soviets' view the situation in Berlin was improving as the principal gorvernment buildings were safe and were guarded by Soviet forces. Martial law has been declared in Magdeburg, Leipzig, Dresden, Halle, Goerlitz, and Brandenburg.