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    Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈʔʊlbʁɪçt]; 30 June 1893 – 1 August 1973) was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role...
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  • Ulbricht is a German surname. Notable people with this name include: Beate Ulbricht (1944–1991), Soviet adopted daughter of Walter and Lotte Ulbricht...
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    Party, Walter Ulbricht for the first "Deutschlandtreffen ("German Festival") of the Free German Youth. The stadium was named after Walter Ulbricht. In the...
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  • First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the GDR Walter Ulbricht and his wife Lotte. Ulbricht was born Mariya Pestunova in 1944 in Leipzig in what...
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    co-chairmanship of the ruling SED (which he held with Grotewohl) in 1950, when Walter Ulbricht became the party's first secretary as the party restructured along...
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    The Ulbricht Doctrine, named after East German leader Walter Ulbricht, was the assertion that normal diplomatic relations between East Germany and West...
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    Germany (SED) official and the second wife of the East German leader Walter Ulbricht. She was born the younger of two children in Rixdorf in 1903. Her father...
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    of Marxism–Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools. Walter Ulbricht was the party's dominant figure and effective leader of East Germany...
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    and in August 1961, with Khrushchev's backing, East German leader Walter Ulbricht ordered the closing of the border and the construction of a wall around...
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    led, with support of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, to him replacing Walter Ulbricht as General Secretary of the SED and chairman of the National Defence...
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    apparent to longtime party leader Walter Ulbricht, but his ascendancy was checked by Erich Honecker. After Ulbricht's death in 1973, Stoph became Chairman...
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    Deutschlands, or KPD) and the National Committee for a Free Germany, led by Walter Ulbricht, who flew from the Soviet Union back to Germany on April 30, 1945....
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    and served as the de jure head of government under First Secretary Walter Ulbricht until his death in 1964. Grotewohl was born on 11 March 1894 in Braunschweig...
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    would remain divided indefinitely. In East Berlin, General Secretary Walter Ulbricht of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), the ruling party of...
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  • Throbbing Gristle, released in Germany in April 1982 through record label Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien. Journey Through a Body was a piece of "radio art" commissioned...
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  • received by youth, with protests beginning in summer 1959 that mocked Walter Ulbricht and supported Elvis Presley. David Byrne described Lipsi as "a weird...
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  • normality" in a form of "silent repression". Erich Honecker's succession to Walter Ulbricht as First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in...
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    War (1947–1991), as named by the Western Allies. East German leader Walter Ulbricht agitated and maneuvered to get the Soviet Union's permission to construct...
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    Schirdewan was seen as a potential successor to Walter Ulbricht but fell out of favour in 1958. Ulbricht continued to lead the government until 1971, while...
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    Pact, he abandoned efforts to that end, while Thälmann's party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Thälmann was shot dead by...
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    under Walter Ulbricht, Mielke was not involved in routine intelligence briefings to the leadership which, instead, were provided directly to Ulbricht by...
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    churches. For the same reasons, the structure was also called "St. Walter" (from Walter Ulbricht). U.S. President Ronald Reagan mentioned this in his Tear down...
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    power struggle against the General Secretary of the Central Committee,Walter Ulbricht. After the uprising of 17 June 1953, where Herrnstadt had shown understanding...
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    estimated at $7 billion to $9 billion, with East German party leader Walter Ulbricht later claiming that West Germany owed him $17 billion in compensation...
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  • 1968 and 1970, which was introduced and led by the country's leader, Walter Ulbricht. It focused on high technology sectors in an attempt to make self-sufficient...
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    uses in propaganda, such as a book on the life of East German leader Walter Ulbricht and another on Albanian leader Enver Hoxha. As of 2011, Madonna's 1992...
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    Parteigeschichte und Zensur unter Walter Ulbricht [The Red Thread. Communist party history and censorship under Walter Ulbricht] (PDF). Zeithistorische Studien...
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  • 11 – Donald J.M. Russell August 18 – C. Douglas Dillon August 25 – Walter Ulbricht September 1 – Lawrence F. O'Brien September 8 – Nikita Khrushchev September...
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    and held the office until his death, while the SED general secretary Walter Ulbricht assumed most executive authority. Socialist leader Otto Grotewohl (1894–1964)...
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  • Zedong, Karl Marx, Hosni Mubarak, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolae Ceausescu, Walter Ulbricht, Gavrilo Princip, Bela Kun, and Che Guevara. Crow acquired these former...
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