Once a producer of quality goods. its machine products are often so ill made that they have embarrassed Soviet bloc aid efforts in other parts of the world. Caught in a closed and sullen society. it is no wonder that thousands of East Germans still seek to flee despite the wall and land mines. the barbed wires and -tanks and machineguns. The number of refugees who now escape is kept closely guarded so that the Communists will never know how badly East Germany is still being bled. But the extent of unrest and latent rebellion is indicated in the fact that some 400.000 Soviet troops. plus puppet police. are required to keep the country under the heel of Russian colonialism. The contrast between West Berlin and the closed society that surrounds it is the difference between freedom and communismmade clear anew each day for all the world to see.
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