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Word: spartakusbund (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Goat). At 15, he joined a workers' youth organization, at 17, the German Woodworkers' Union. At 19, he joined the Social Democratic Party, where he got acquainted with Das Kapital. When a renegade bloc of Socialists merged with Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartakusbund in 1920 to form the German Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht was there as a charter member. He was an enthusiastic organizer and well-crammed encyclopedia of the dictums and ambiguities of his idol, Lenin. But his prime talent was treachery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Coffinmaker | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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