East German leader Walter Ulbricht (right) and his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev are seen at East Berlin's Schönefeld airport in this 1963 photo. According to the Soviet document, Khrushchev sent the Soviet ambassador in East Berlin to Ulbricht in order to "explain to him my idea of taking advantage of the current tensions with the West and laying an iron ring around Berlin."
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