Word: hohensch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tactics. To combat widespread apathy among workers, which this year by the regime's own estimate contributed to $180 million in lost industrial production, the Reds introduced a system of rank-and-file "control teams" with wide powers to crack down on dissidents. At the political prison in Hohenschönhausen near Berlin, a former Nazi forced-labor camp, the Communists recently revived the infamous system of "Kapos"-prisoners hand-picked for cruelty who mete out punishment to other prisoners for the sake of extra food for themselves...
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