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| Soviet Military Administration in Germany - 1945-49 - had control of all aspects of life in the eastern zone, was supposed to set up an effective German Communist Party and Develop a German security service (created DVdi to centralize it) |
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| head of SMAD, Minister of Defense, decorated general of the red army, and eastern zones supreme military commander |
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| First State President of the GDR – 1949, and served as it’s only president until 1960. Most real power held by SED’s Ulbricht. |
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| First secretary of the socialist unity party from 1950 - 1971, played a leading role in the KPD (communist party of Germany)Became chairman in 1960 of the Council of State, making him supreme leader of Germany |
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| headed the Stasi, main chief of East German intelligence. |
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| – SED first secretary after Ulbricht from 1971 to 1989, had been in charge of the building of the Berlin wall in 1961. Also became chairman of the Head of State (like Ulbricht) in 1976. Consumer Socialism. |
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| strike by construction workers in East Berlin in 1953, turned into a widespread anti-stalinist uprising against the German democratic republic. It spread over east Germany and was violently suppressed, but it was hard to bring under control. It was caused by the decree to raise charges against farmers so that they had to give up their independence, also a lack of food and consumer goods. Last straw was the decision to raise the work norms for higher productivity. |
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