gdr ; est rule ; '45-'49 + division ; creation sed

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when did group german communists from russia arrive in berlin?
30th april '45
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just days before?
end of wat
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who were these communistsled by?
ulbricht
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and known as?
the ulbricht group
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for most period third reich why had they been in moscow?
exiled
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what was the german communist party called?
kpd
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and ulbricht grp first priority was to make sure they controlled what?
as many key local administrative positions as possible
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and to encourage?
popular support
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however by local elections in summer it was clear who had far more popular support?
spd
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how did germans view kpd?
tool of the soviets
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so unlikely they would?
ever achieve power
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due to various factors including what from nazis?
anti-soviet propaganda
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and what things that the soviet army did in final months of wwii?
looting and ******
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when did the parties merge?
april '46
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to form?
sed
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how many kpd members?
600,000
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and spd members?
700,000
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very next day saw first edition of sed newspaper?
neues deutschland
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comntroversial merger came about as result soviet pressure on spd to?
disband
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and general desire to avoid having what?
two left parties competing for votes
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many germans also regarded the kpd/spd inability to co-operate in early '30s a major reason of what?
why nazi's able achieve power
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sed leaders swiftly ensured party was dominated by who?
communists
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purge of sed members who had done what?
been former politicials / supporters of pre-wwii spd
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in '48 sed officially stated commitment to?
marxist-leninist principples (brilliant)
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by '50 approx how many former spd members arrested and sent to soviet prisons?
5,000
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