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title: '"Unsere Antwort an Provokateure": Berlin march for the government after 17 June 1953'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-berlin-demonstration-trust-in-government-banner-1953/
description: 'Young marchers in the Karl-Marx-Allee (formerly Stalinallee) carry a banner reading ''Unsere Antwort an Provokateure: Festes Vertrauen zur Regierung!''…'
section: Collection
---

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# "Unsere Antwort an Provokateure": Berlin march for the government after 17 June 1953

Young marchers in the Karl-Marx-Allee (formerly Stalinallee) carry a banner reading 'Unsere Antwort an Provokateure: Festes Vertrauen zur Regierung!', with a dense field of red flags and a portrait behind them. The banner answers the strikers of 17 June by labelling them 'Provokateure' (the name-calling tell), and the agency caption backs it with 'tens of thousands' of Berliners expressing trust, a crowd count standing in for a reason (bandwagon).

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
UNSERE ANTWORT AN PROVOKATEURE:
FESTES VERTRAUEN ZUR REGIERUNG !
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
OUR ANSWER TO PROVOCATEURS:
FIRM TRUST IN THE GOVERNMENT!
```

Read from the committed image. Only the banner text is transcribed; the portrait and flags carry no legible text.

[← 拒否権！ (Veto! Only the Soviet Union rejects Japan's UN application)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kyohiken-soviet-veto-japan-un-poster-1953/) [Berliners present gifts to Soviet soldiers "for their considered intervention" on 17 June 1953 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-volkssolidaritaet-thanks-soviet-soldiers-adn-1953/)

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