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    • 1 October

      1982

      With a "constructive" vote of no confidence, the CDU/CSU-FDP majority in the Bundestag ousts Helmut Schmidt and elects CDU chairman Helmut Kohl as the new West German Chancellor.
    • 11 October

      1982

      At a central conference of the Ministry for Security in October 1982, Stasi Minister Erich Mielke explains: "The enemy wants to use economic measures to create 'political constraints" for the party and state leaderships in socialist countries that are meant to lead to internal changes, to so-called reforms, to the 'liberalisation' of domestic politics – in other words, to the undermining and weakening of socialist power – combined with the creation of 'spaces' for all kinds of hostile, negative, anti-socialist, dissident, revisionist, liberalist, nationalist and anti-Soviet forces."

      Mielke concludes that the economy "is the decisive field of conflict for the revolutionary action of the party." For this reason, he says, it is necessary to increase the Ministry for Security’s contribution "to enforcing the resolutions of the party and state leadership in the economic and socio-political area." less
    • 13 October

      1982

      West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl assures the Bundestag that his government will uphold the treaties with the East and the obligations they contain.
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