He basically was trying to choke the life out of them so he could control that land. Now, the United States and England basically adopted a policy called containment. Where we weren't going to fight World War III, but hell if we were going to let the Red expand into our area. So Truman, who was the President of the United States, instituted the Berlin Airlift. And basically what he did was if I was a starving Berliner, all I had to do was look every day and... Chips, apples, electricity. They dropped tons of food and supplies in order to kind of challenge the Soviets, what are you going to do now? And eventually what they had to do was build the Berlin Wall, which separated West Berlin from East Berlin.