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Saddle for a Cow. The prospect before Ulbricht is not at all the way Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Ulbricht had planned it. Before World War II ended, the Soviet master plan for Germany was drawn up and working. Roughly, it was laid out in three stages. Stage One: milk the occupation zone of Germany of all the industrial plants, tools, raw materials, foodstuffs and talent (i.e., top scientists and technicians) that could be transferred to war-damaged Russia. Stage Two: Bolshevize all means of material existence, and force-build agricultural East Germany into a workshop for Russia...
...sturdy, thick-bodied man, with thinning brown hair and dark eyes that dart busily above pouches of crow's feet. A mustache shades his upper lip, and a goatee bobs from the point of his chin in disarming capriciousness. It is much like Lenin's goatee-a comparison Walter Ulbricht has long encouraged, for most of his life he has dreamed of becoming Germany's Lenin, the triumphant father and leader of a Communist Germany...
...their homes and jobs by Communist Vertrauensleute (trusties) and herded into the square. Around the flanks hovered armed, blue-uniformed men of the Communist Volkspolizei; just out of sight, their guns ready for any signs of trouble, were soldiers of the Soviet army. The man who wanted to be Lenin spoke, not in triumph but in apology...
...night of June 3-4, firing was heard. On June 4-5, armed militia marched through the streets and machine guns were placed before the Lenin factories and government buildings . . . Workers in the Lenin Works did not stop the reactionary elements in time, something that must never be allowed to happen again...
...Sverdlov is named for Old Bolshevik Leader Yakov Sverdlov, a crony of Lenin, and the man who in 1918 ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family...