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big landowners private schools. Therefore, the situation in Chile at the time. We give dent on Switzerland and the FRG, because
religion did not exert a particularly strong them any kind of support they request. Yet the socialist countries have not yet devel-
hold on the people. Nevertheless, we are sometimes they act like the Chileans at the oped such chemicals. Unfortunately, there
very careful in our relations with the church, time. is no hope that the GDR will develop such
especially given the situation in Latin Erich Honecker: Every people has to products in the foreseeable future. We also
America, not to admit that the revolution is learn by experience. must buy a lot of equipment from the West-
opposed to the church. In addition, we have Fidel Castro: They simply are too ern countries. It will be the same for you.
talked a lot about the Christians closeness democratic Comrade Honecker, the floor Above all, the issue is raw materials, many
to the Marxists, and said that Jesus was is yours now. sorts of raw materials, and spare parts. In
Christian. Erich Honecker: I ve already taken up sum, a significant part of our trade depends
Erich Honecker: The Sermon on the a lot of time. on relations with the West.
Mount says something along these lines, too. Fidel Castro: You have much more to In addition, the prices of sugar and
Fidel Castro: There are many priests tell than I do. To sum up, I would like to nickel were low for some years. This year,
with a revolutionary attitude in Latin say the following: the price of sugar has increased. The world
America. We think this is of great impor- It is our party s belief that our relations price of sugar will probably very good next
tance. with the GDR are very good ones. We are year, and this helps us a lot in dealing with
Erich Honecker: We also integrated a very satisfied with how this relationship has these difficulties.
lot of them into the National Front. At the developed, and we are very grateful to the However, there are other problems as
elections, they call upon the people to vote GDR. You are virtually the first country with well. We had some obscure plagues recently.
for the candidates of the National Front. which we have concluded the coordination We believe that these plagues were caused
I come from a miners town. The ma- of the five-year plan. In our view, all issues by sabotage.
jority of the people was Catholic. There was have been settled to our satisfaction, and this First, there was a fungal disease in our
a street where 80% of the people living there helps us a lot. Our discussions with the oth- tobacco plantations. This year, 90% of our
voted for the KPD [the Communist Party of ers have not yet been concluded. tobacco production were destroyed, and we
Germany]. As for the political issues, we fully had to import tobacco. Fortunately, there are
After 1945, we had Priest Kleinschmidt agree. I believe that there still are a lot of chemicals that are well-suited for fighting
in the GDR, who was responsible for all of possibilities to develop our cooperation in this sort of fungus. We have made a strong
Mecklenburg, and we had priests on the the economic and political field. But things effort and we got the necessary amount for
National Front s National Council. We had are going well. This is what I wanted to say next year. Therefore, we believe that we will
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have solved the problem by next year; be- and we are at pains to calm the people down. There are two very interesting phenom-
cause this plague has brought us into a very If 150 children had died, then we would have ena. They all believe what the revolution-
difficult situation. Other countries were hurt, witnessed serious acts of revenge. And ap- ary government says, and second, they have
too. In Jamaica, the whole tobacco produc- parently this was the intention. the methods of the revolution, a revolution-
tion has been destroyed, in Canada, too, and Three days ago a special school was ary style.
perhaps the USA will be affected as well. set on fire, a dangerous incident, too. This is strange. The Yankees concen-
It s blue mould [Blauschimmel]. Yesterday a small rum factory was set trate them in bases, and there they organize
On our sugar plantations we also had a alight. Hence, there is sabotage, and this ei- the revolt. They don t obey any orders. With
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