Word: stoph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East German pensioners began registering to go West with the cagey blessing of Communism's chief zombie in the Soviet zone, Walter Ulbricht. And when the satellite's nominal No. 2 man, Premier Otto Grotewohl, died of a stroke, he was promptly replaced by ascetic, articulate Willi Stoph, whom the Communists have artfully put forward as the kind of man the West can deal with...
...Communist East Germany and reaching almost epidemic proportions. The name of the disease was Torschlusspanik, which literally means "fear of gate closing." Everything East German leaders did to shut off the flow of refugees to the West seemed, instead, to spur it on. The day that Deputy Premier Willi Stoph announced new secret measures to halt the refugees-ostensibly at the urging of "delegations of workers"-1.532 East Germans beat it over the border and checked into the big Marienfelde refugee center in West Berlin...