INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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Democracy
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Communism
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Fascism
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The German Democratic Republic (GDR) regarded itself as the first Socialist state on German soil, the governmental structure of which was to be based on the principles of ‘democratic centralism’, in other words on the principles established by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin for the leadership of Communist parties.
Detailed explanation-2: -East Germany had a command economy, in which virtually all decisions were made by the governing communist party, the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1968, the SED recast the constitution into a fully Communist document. It declared East Germany to be a socialist state whose power derived from the working class under the leadership of “its Marxist-Leninist party"-thus codifying the actual state of affairs that had existed since 1949.
Detailed explanation-4: -The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), commonly known in English as East Germany) was created as a socialist republic on 7 October 1949 and began to institute a government based on the government of the Soviet Union during the Stalin era.