Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy Erzgebirge and Harz Mountains, and stretches roughly from the Czech frontier across Thuringia to the borders of the U.S. and British zones-is tightly shut off from the outside world. It is heavily guarded by Red German police and by a special force of 5,000 MVD...
...landed on the Black Sea coast and were marching north. So one day there was a big argument in the Kharkov market. A farmer who was about to sell a goat refused rubles in payment. He demanded dollars. Soon thereafter, the arrests came in waves. I suppose the MVD had spread the rumor to provoke us and find...
...asked: "What do your people really hope for?" The answer was quick and passionate: "The thing we've hoped for for years. The end of foreign rule and exploitation by Moscow, either through czars or commissars. A life where we can travel more than 20 kilometers without an MVD permit, where we can be without fear and terror, where we are free...
...Werner Niebisch, publicity director, and Business Manager Ludwig Pulst-managed to get interzonal passes for a West German tour. But there was a condition: Niebisch had to agree to work as a spy for the Russians. Niebisch's work on the Western tour apparently did not satisfy the MVD. Once back in Dresden, the singers were accused by Communist papers of being Western spies; they found their food rations reduced, their wage taxes raised, the choir's contracts broken, their advertising placards defaced with "Reaktionare," and "Schumacherlinge" (Schumacher stooges). At last, 24 of the choir members decided...