So that consumption by the GDR population does not have to be restricted, the Planning Commission decides to reduce the funds for investments:
the percentage of national income used for investments is reduced to 18.7 percent for 1982, 18.6 percent for 1983, 18 percent for 1984 and 18.9 percent for 1985 – the level during the early 1960s – compared with 22.8 percent in the years 1976-1980 and 20.3 percent in 1980-1981.
The condition of production plants, buildings and infrastructure worsens constantly in the following years.less
5-10 September
1981
Start of the first nation-wide assembly of delegates from the independent union "Solidarity" in Gdansk.more
