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Literaturverz. S. 221 - 235

The 3rd Party Congress of the SED was due to be held from July 20th to 24th, 1950. The most important decisions to be taken were the Five-Year Plan, the first one to be implemented in the newly founded East German state, the new party statute of the SED, and the preparations for the General elections in the GDR, set for October 15th. In preparation for these decisions, Pieck, Grotewohl and Ulbricht, with Oelssner as interpreter, travelled to Moscow for consultations. On May 4th, they were received in the Kremlin and had a three-hour meeting with Stalin. The minutes of the meeting, formerly kept in the Presidential Archive, but now in the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History (RGASPI), are published in full. The most important result of the meeting was that reparations were reduced by half. Other results were the agreement to increase workers' wages, to a much higher extent than the SED had intended, and other economic decisions that were designed to improve the election prospects for the SED. (Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte / FUB)