Item COLD WAR 11/15 - Transcript of interview with journalist Fritz Schenk, 1996

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COLD WAR 11/15

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Transcript of interview with journalist Fritz Schenk, 1996

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  • 1996 May (Creation)

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22pp

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Typescript transcript of interview with Fritz Schenk, relating to the importance of the USSR's political control over the German Democratic Republic, [1950-1953]; the Stalinist centralised economy of the German Democratic Republic, [1949-1953]; the influence of the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin in the German Democratic Republic, 5 Mar 1953; the character of Walther Ulbricht, leader of the Socialist Unity Party, German Democratic Republic, 1946-1971; the industrial unrest in the German Democratic Republic, 1953; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and many of the worst excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956. 22pp

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