Maintaining control and support

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how many full time stasi employees were there in the 1980's?
90,000
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why did the stasi have to begin reigning in their violent methods?
gaining global recognition
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what did mood reports study?
Attitudes of the public
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what was another reason to co-operate with the Stasi besides fear and monitary gain?
believed in communism
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what is a niche society?
retreating into covert groups
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what was the only institution that had limited government interference on their newspapers?
Church
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what was the audience share on the Black Channel? (propaganda)
5%
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what is the main demonstration that propaganda failed?
rapid push for re-unification
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what topics were banned in the media?
crime and sex
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what was the primary youth group in the GDR?
FDJ
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What was the circulation of the Junge Welt in the 1950's? (youth newspaper)
1.4 million
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what did membership of the FDJ drop by when people finished school?
1/3
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how many attended holidday camps in 1983?
1 million
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what was the religious political party?
Christian Democratic Party
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what was the Jugendweihe?
political coming of age ceremony
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17.7% of young people did the Jugendweihe in 1945 - how many in the 1960's?
90%
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what did pastor Bruisewitz do in protest against the church state relationship?
set himself on fire
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what policy meant church state relations had to improve?
Ostpolitik
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what was Basket three in the Helsinki Accords?
Human Rights
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what year was the Concordat?
1978
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What was ironic about popular consumer goods in the west?
made in the GDR
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what was the 'Lightning against NATO transmitters?'
Campaign against western media
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what percentage of movie audiences were young people?
70%
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what were popular movements?
punk and disco
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what city was nicnamed the valley of the clueless?
Dreseden
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