GermanyAufgabe 210 · History and responsibility
What happened in the GDR on 17 June 1953?
In the exam (German)
Was ereignete sich am 17. Juni 1953 in der DDR?
- athe ceremonial accession to the Warsaw Pactder feierliche Beitritt zum Warschauer Pakt
- bnationwide strikes and a popular uprisinglandesweite Streiks und ein VolksaufstandCorrect answer
- cthe 1st SED party congressder 1. SED-Parteitag
- dFidel Castro's first visitder erste Besuch Fidel Castros
Why?
On 17 June 1953, many people all over the GDR went on strike and demonstrated – first against higher work quotas, then also for free elections. Soviet tanks crushed the popular uprising. In the Federal Republic, 17 June was then a public holiday until 1990.
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