Word: vopos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes a refugee run? Since July 1, reported West Berlin officials, 23,421 fled for political reasons; 36,124 for "humanity" reasons, e.g., being ordered into uranium mines; 14,939 were youths under 25 who had no homes or were dodging the VOPO (People's Police) draft...
...frontier one night last week. American Movie Director Victor Vicas was shooting a film called No Way Back. The plot: boy soldier in the Soviet zone meets German girl, boy loves girl, boy and girl flee to freedom in the West. Cameras whirred, the "Red" leading man escaped the Vopo extras amidst a spatter of fake bullets, someone yelled "Cut!" and the director got ready for the next scene...
...Vopos have fled to the West; these knew personally of another 250 Vopos who had been broken in rank or jailed. The Vopo army had failed the puppet regime and the Kremlin. "We alone would never have been able to defeat the provocateurs," confessed Quisling Premier Otto Grotewohl last week, in slavish thanks for the intervention of Red army troops and tanks...
...even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily on an idle cement mixer pointed with a sneer at a tall Vopo. "Hello, long one," he cried. "Your pants are open...
...steel workers marched on strike, tore hats and guns away from traffic policemen who tried to halt them, grabbed Leipzig Mayor Uhlich and forced him to march at the head, his chest covered with a sign saying: "Down with the Government!" Where one German fell dead from a Vopo's bullet, the revolters heaped flowers and set up a sign: "Here a German was shot to death by a German...