How the Berlin Bear Lottery made the people happy

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There was bread again, now there should be more games. The people of the GDR should be happier. At least happier. New uprisings like that of June 1953 had to be prevented at all costs. Dissatisfaction had driven hundreds of thousands into the streets in the GDR: the protests were initially directed against stricter labor standards, but quickly became political and called the whole system into question.

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