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ers slogans and demands ; The workers and private enterprises of the GDR, as well as to in the next 3-4 months, in which the questions of
mood ; The behavior of other groups of people. undertake wide-ranging political action among the party s role in the establishment of the new
The Intelligentsia. The Rural Areas. The Church ; workers, focusing on improving their relations direction would be discussed. During this con-
and The Party. Party apparatus. Party bloc. with the party. vention to seriously renew the ranks of the CC, so
Social Organizations. Part II examined The 8. In light of the recent misdirection of CC as to include a greater number of younger person-
Economic Problems Facing the GDR in Light of SED in their methods of governing by taking over nel, who have excelled in their work with the
the Events of 17-19 June. ] government and administrative organs, [it is nec- working classes, working peasants, as well as the
essary] clearly to separate the functions of the intelligencia. To radically renew the ranks of the
III. A few conclusions and recommendations Government of the GDR and the CC SED, giving CC SED Politburo, purging it of members who do
the CC SED the power of oversight on solely the not demonstrate the necessary capabilities re-
With regard to the above-stated, we think it most important questions of the State and its quired of leaders of the party and of the State in
appropriate to undertake the following measures citizenry. To focus the attention of CC SED on these times.
in order to correct the situation in the GDR: carrying out political campaigns among the popu- 11. To carry out a special investigation of
lace and on smoothening out intra-party opera- the work of the professional unions and to make
1. To firmly and consistently carry out the tions by introducing broader intra-party democ- decisive changes in the ranks of the leaders of
new political course, as outlined in the Soviet racy, criticism, and self-criticism from top to corresponding organs, as well as to introduce
Government Resolutions of 6 June 1953 on the bottom. new regulations that would radically change the
normalization of the political situation in the Correspondingly, it is necessary: role of the professional unions in step with the
GDR. a) to reorganize the Government of the GDR requirements of the new direction.
2. To undertake immediate steps to radi- with the goal of strengthening and reducing the 12. To reexamine the ranks, the organiza-
cally improve the food supply for the population size of government apparatus both centrally and tion and the distribution of the people s police of
of the GDR by providing it with corresponding at its branches, by consolidating a number of the GDR, to arm it with modern weapons, includ-
aid from Soviet Union and other people s demo- scattered ministries and departments into larger ing armored transports and armored vehicles, and
cratic countries. With regard to this, one should ministries and departments; with communications equipment, as well as to
bear in mind that so far the forms of assistance, b) to liquidate the Ministry of State Security create, drawing from the ranks of current detach-
including the additional shipments ordered by [KGB] of the the GDR, by merging into the ments of barracks-based police, mobile detach-
the Soviet Government on 24 June, have been Ministry of Internal Affairs of the GDR; ments of sufficient readiness and strength as to be
limited to food rations and to minimal commer- c) to relieve comr. Ulbricht of his duties as able to maintain order and peace in the Republic
cial trade in the KhO stores during the 3rd deputy prime minister of the GDR, so as to enable without the help of the Soviet military.
quarter of this year. him to concentrate his attention on work within To reorganize the currently existing army
3. In order to create a stable economy in the the CC SED; corpus of the GDR into a national guard-type
Republic and to improve the standard of living of d) to elevate the role of the Chamber of the army, along the lines of the one existing in West-
the citizens of the GDR so as to match that of the People to that of an active Parliament of the ern Germany.
citizens of West Germany, to examine the ques- Republic, that would debate and legislate the laws 13. To give the SNM organization the char-
tion of discontinuing the shipment of goods in of the Republic, establish commissions, debate acter of a broad-based non-party organization of
the form of reparations to the Soviet Union and inquiries and demands voiced by its deputies, etc. youth, using the experience of earlier German
Poland and discontinuing the shipment of goods To forbid the passage of any resolutions, that youth organizations. To make changes in the
to USSR as payment for currently operating are in effect laws, bypassing the Chamber of the leadership ranks of the Central Soviet of the
Soviet enterprises in the GDR, as of the second People of the GDR; Union of German Youth (SNM).
half of 1953, so as to use these goods to improve e) to call an extraordinary session of the 14. To change the character of the diplo-
GDR foreign trade and to provide for the domes- Chamber of the People of the GDR, as a vehicle matic delegation in the Soviet Union from the
tic needs of the Republic. for the Government of the GDR to report on its GDR, and their assignments. To strengthen cul-
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