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Institution of the New Society (s)

The regime, during its two-plus decades of existence, has busied itself domestically with reshaping old German institutions into a new socialist establishment. It has been fortunate in that some of its reforms have proven popular and thereby established a rapport between ruler and ruled. It has also dispensed medicine bitter enough to antagonize its citizenry. Throughout, the guiding principle has continued to be the exaltation of the interest of the state. The populace has had to adjust accordingly.

The determination of the government to have its way was most strikingly demonstrated in the spring of 1960 when it unleashed a massive campaign to com-

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