Word: freundschaft
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Along East Berlin streets boxed in with grotesque caricatures of a bloody-handed Uncle Sam bludgeoning a prostrate world, half a million blue-shirted young Germans marched up & down this week yelling their battle cry: "Freundschaft!" (friendship). Occasion: the opening of Communism's World Youth Festival, a grandiose, two-week propaganda brawl, designed along the lines of last year's huge but unsuccessful Berlin youth rally...
...Communists had specially lowered the price of hot dogs for the occasion). They rode merry-go-rounds and Ferris wheels. Giggling girls had their pictures taken with genial Soviet G.I.s. The rally's propa- ganda motif was "Friendship." Wherever two groups of blue-shirted youngsters met, they shouted "Freundschaft!" at each other. Truckloads of grinning Communist cops-looking as incongruous as gunmen at a Sunday picnic-careened through the streets, yelling "Freundschaft!" at the moppets, who enthusiastically returned the salute...
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