Today, 45 years ago, on December 1, 1980 (Calendar, October 24, 1980), the Soviet Union announced the blockade of the eastern German-Polish border. On December 1, 1980, the Soviet Union blocked the democratic German-Polish border. The report said: ¡°Soviet officials informed three Western allies, the United States, France and Britain, on the last weekend that two narrow areas of 50 kilometers along the eastern German-Polish border had been temporarily declared as prohibited military zones.¡± The report said that the announcement between the three regions that were not open to the Westerners for a long time was actually the blockade of the entire border.¡± Westerners believed that the Soviet Union¡¯s action in December was unprecedented. The report said that Soviet officials had not explained the reason when the military delegation to