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...Soviet troops swept into Berlin in 1945, they battered down the doors of the Brandenburg Prison. Among the prisoners freed was Erich Honecker, a tall, gaunt Communist who had spent most of the past ten years in solitary confinement. Upon his release, Honecker lost no time in joining the Ulbricht Group, a band of Moscow-trained Communists who had been flown to Germany by the Russians to organize a government...
Honecker's record obviously impressed Walter Ulbricht, who had met the young man briefly in Paris in the 1930s. The son of an impoverished Saar miner who was also a dedicated Communist, young Honecker was handing out political pamphlets at eight and was a full-fledged party member at 18. Two years after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was arrested and later sentenced to ten years in prison for preparing to commit high treason...
Brandt's reasoning was buttressed by the Soviets themselves, who gave private assurances that they were prepared to be reasonable. But last December's consumer riots in Poland seem to have made them less flexible. East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who at 77 is the self-proclaimed dean of Soviet-style Communism, warned Moscow that accommodation with the West over Berlin without diplomatic recognition of East Germany would undermine his position, and that what happened in Poland could be repeated in East Germany...
EAST GERMANY: For the past seven years, Walter Ulbricht's fiefdom has been the East bloc's star performer, running up statistics that many capitalist countries would envy. From 1966 to 1970, foreign trade increased 60%; industrial output rose 37%, making East Germany the ninth greatest industrial power; and the national income gained 29% to reach $29.5 billion. The East German regime is all the more proud of this achievement because it was accomplished without granting an ounce more political freedom to the people, defying the generally accepted thesis that economic reform inevitably reduces political control. The East...
...Wall on East Germans ("When I die, I'll become a guard and patrol the border between heaven and hell. Show your pass, please.") In Der Dra-Dra, he attacks what he describes as "parasitic power of all sorts"-which suggests Franco and Papadopoulos as well as Ulbricht and Brezhnev...