Word: newspeak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter Ulbricht's regime sent out draft orders to 524,000 men. The move provoked a rare outburst of vocal opposition. Ex-servicemen wrote indignant letters to the press recalling their pledge-signed when they were released from Soviet P.W. camps-never to bear arms again. In embarrassed newspeak, Communist officials reassured the veterans that they "need not worry about breaking the pledge. You are being called to protect freedom, to help the Soviet Union protect the working class...