gdr ; est rule ; success eco development '49-'61 ; june 53 rising

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ulbricht in june announced need for industrial productivity to increase how many %?
10%
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while what would remain unchanged?
wages
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when did the rising start?
17th june 1953
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in response to statement how many stalinalee (high-profile) workers striked?
300
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demanding?
reduction 10% increase
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where did they march to?
House of Ministries
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joined by?
1000s other workers
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by following day strikes across country partly due to east germans doing what?
listening to west german news on the radio
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as well as ridiculing ulbricht inc political chanting like?
down with the SED / genuine vote / return SPD / release political prisiners
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protesters attacked which places?
prisons / police stations / offices / courthouses
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demonstrators climbed on hwat and set fire to soviet flag?
brandenburg gate
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ulbricht not sure if he had whose loyalty yet?
east german police
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s appealed to who to intervene directly?
ussr (broner alert)
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more than how many soldiers stationed?
20,000
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and how many tanks?
600
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moved in to suppress revolts and impose stat eof?
martial law
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in protests how any demonstrators killed?
21
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acknowledged role grievances played but also blamed who for encouraging?
western news broadcasts
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what joke did brecht make?
if the govermnet didn't like the demands of the workers, then perhaps they should elect different workers
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IMPACT OF UPRISING
DDG
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this uprising ironically allowed ulbricht to do hwat?
consolidate and strengthposition
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est. following rising how many protestors executed?
20
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how many imprisoned?
500
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and severeal hundred so called 'anti-socialists' sent where?
siberia
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used this uprising to justify what?
purge of SED
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w/ est how many SED functionaries replaced?
20,000
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what did gov do w/ demands?
complied and reduced
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were concessions made to political demands?
nope
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ukbricht announced in september eco planning would give more priority to?
consumer goods
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and what would end the following yr?
food rationing
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reinforced for many increasing unlikelihood of?
reunification
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who hadn't intervened?
west allies
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and GDR soon to be admitted to?
warsaw pact
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as well as USSR sanctioning GDR right to do what?
rearm and develop own armed forces
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greatest impact is that it served powerful deterrent to many to?
not revolt
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did this rising lead to ulbricht making significant reforms?
no
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instead prusue?
more hard-line policies
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followed extensive repression period w/ mass?
arrests
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purge of?
civil service / SED party memers
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and reorg + re-equipping of?
police force
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some concessions e.g increase in?
pensions
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production of?
consumer goods
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and reduction in prise of basic goods like?
milk / butter / coffee
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