EAST GERMANY
Opposition groups emerge as mass upsurge deepens
THE RULE of the bureaucracy in the
On the fortieth annivercountries of "actually existing socialism"
sary of the founding of the German Democratracte on two millare. the nowar of the ctate stated: "what has now started in the DDR will set off a revolutionary transformation." The Presidiic Republic [DDR],
October 7, there was a historic turn. It is true that over 100,000 members of the Free German
'ests on two pillars - the power of the state apparatus and the passivity of the masses imposed by intimidation or terror. The mighty demonstrations of the past weeks um of the writers' union spoke in a similar tone: "stagnation is a growing danger to what has been achieved."
Youth (the CP youth organization) marched past the party leadership once again. But on the same evening, according the CP organ Neues Deutschland, "hooli- organ Neues Deutschland, "hooligans in cahoots with the Western media...formed a mob." This demonstration was brutally broken up.