SED LINE ON THE IDEOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE DDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011200580005-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT SED Line on the Ideological Basis of the DDR
DATE DISTR. 8 April 1952
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The purpose of this meeting was to proYide ideological clarification of the
present status of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. The point was care-
fully made that the' DDR was politically and ideologically in no way to be
compared with the Eastern Peoplers Democracies. On the contrary, the DDR
was an unfinished part of the Germany now striving for unity. The anti-
Fascist democratic order, which come into being at the end of World War II
as the central principle for all. of Germany, is still the determining factor
in that part of Germany east of the Elbe. All measures and developments
in the DDR, which might be compared with structural elements of Soviet
socialism or of the Eastern Peoples Democracies, are at best provisional
in the DDR and must never be treated as a final condition,
At the meetings these fur.- mental principles were presented as a line which
must be clearly discussed within all. groups of "responsible friends of theILLEGIB
Soviet Won". Persons -t the meeting were told that thin line explains
The central political principle which the DDR follows is not planned to lead
to the development of a People's Democracy or Socialism but to a unified
Germany. Only when Germany is reunified, can those fundamental developments
which already characterize "the progressive peoples", begin to take place in
Germany.
Those attending the meeting were assigned the task of indoctrinating every
functionary and member of their respective organizations with the idea that.
under no circumstances was the present political-social situation in the
Soviet Zone to be presented as -a society being consistently developed to
follow the Soviet e ple.- In.all schooling courses, it should be explained
that Germany's situation is unique and incomparable, and the only political
tagk of Germany is i.t reunification. Before the reunification of Germany,
ideological questicm.e such as Peoplets Democracy, Socialism, ~;nd Communism
are in no way pertit3.ent or capable of development.
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