But, as seems to be the case with you Steven, you ignore any of the West's behaviour. Here is what the Office of the American State Department's Historian has to say. It is odd to see a "socialist" white-wash America more than that country's government.
"The Eisenhower administration also hoped to deter Soviet initiatives to start talks on German reunification. Washington believed that any movement toward unification on Soviet terms or even a lessening of the crisis would threaten the delicate process of Western European military integration and weaken an already tenuous French resolve to ratify the European Defense Community (EDC) treaty. The United States was also concerned that unification negations would undermine West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer because he had based his administration on alignment with the West. "
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/east-german-uprising#:~:text=On%20June%2016%2C%201953%2C%20workers,East%20German%20cities%20and%20towns.
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