Hello comrades, I was wondering if any of you had an account of the 1953 East German Uprising that is not absolutely trash in terms of accuracy (I seem to have trouble finding resources that are neither American propaganda nor some opportunist socialist saying that “vanguardism” is not necessary). The best one I found was this, but it still has some signs of an anti-Soviet stench here: https://libcom.org/article/east-germany-june-1953
Its like less than a decade since the nazi got defeated. The threat on the east german government (and on german communists who were often times survivors of the camps) was considerate.
Yeah, even the libcom article makes it clear that it was a messy affair with a potential threat of dismantling German socialism. Also, I found a ridiculous article (on Marxists.org) talking about how the worker protests showed the fact that a vanguard party is not necessary lol.
You can go to primary accounts and look at what Walter Ulbricht had to say about it. He called it a fascist putch. (page 52)
When in 1953, for a number of economic and political reasons, a difficult situation temporarily arose the Bonn rulers tried with the support of the American occupation power to overthrow the workers’ and peasants’ power. The objective of the fascist putsch of t 17 June 1953 consisted in destroying the revolutionary achievements of the working people of the GDR, setting up a counter-revolutionary regime, returning the former trust enterprises to the monopolists and the land of the working farmers to the Junkers and creating a new hotbed of war in the heart of Europe. The fascist elements suffered an ignominious failure because the overwhelming majority of the working class and the working people firmly supported the workers’ and peasants’ power and the Soviet troops stationed on the territory of our Republic supported the working people in putting down the fascist putsch.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/ulbricht/1966/whither-germany.pdf>>>
thanks for that comrade. Who is this Walter Ulbricht? Also Stalin win.
He was chair(?) of the German communist party throughout hitler’s rise and throughout WWII, and was the first head of state of the DDR (east Germany)
To say that he knows a lot about fascism is a massive understatement
