Word: ldp
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...election's most dramatic conflict was between the SED and the Social Democrats. On the surface they were both Socialist workingmen's parties (said one cynical Berlin-voter: "Don't vote for either of them, they both know what they want. Vote CDU or LDP, they don't know what they want and won't bother...
Rare as a Swastika. The Dresden billboard incident points up only one of many direct and indirect methods the Russians have employed to give the SED maximum advantages over the other two parties, CDU and Liberal Democrats (LDP). Lampposts, streetcars, newspaper kiosks, billboards and public buildings scream with SED campaign posters throughout the Russian zone, but CDU and LDP posters are almost as rare as a swastika. In the Land of Saxony, the SED has a daily newspaper with a million circulation. The LDP organ, appearing thrice weekly, has 50,000 circulation and the CDU newspaper, with 35,000 circulation...
...local organization. The favored SED has been able to establish organizations in most communities. The other two parties lag far behind. The SED people have little difficulty getting automobiles and gasoline. Other parties are largely immobile. In Saxony, the SED was recently allotted 30,000 liters of gasoline, the LDP 100 liters...
...dismantling and removal of German industries to Russia, reduced food rations, even worse economic conditions and heavier reparations, and still stricter control by the Soviet occupation authorities. The crassest of whispered slogans is: "If you want peace, vote for the SED. If you want war vote for CDU or LDP...
...attention to the situation in the Russian zone. Germans voting in the zonal elections actually won't be electing councilmen as much as they will be registering their decision on overall Weltanschauung. . . . If they vote SED, they approve the Soviet system; if they vote CDU or LDP, they endorse Western democracy...