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⭐ Core Definition: Mass organisation

Transmission belt is a Marxist–Leninist analogy to describe interactions of the communist party with the people in a communist state via mass organizations, such as trade unions. All these institutions worked under the party's leadership. Examples are the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, were and are transmission belt organisations.

The term originates from Vladimir Lenin's speech to the 8th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions and the Moscow City Council of Trade Unions, on 30 December 1920.

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⭐ Core Definition: Mass organisation
Mass organisation in the context of Free German Trade Union Federation

Mass organisation in the context of Free German Trade Union Federation

The Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB; German: Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) was the sole national trade union centre of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) from 1946 to 1990. It was a mass organisation and a constituent member of the National Front. The FDGB was a federation of trade unions that nominally represented all workers in East Germany, but in practice was an agency of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) to enforce ideological conformity in the workplace. The FDGB was dissolved by the De Maizière government shortly before German reunification.

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