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"By 1946, the KPD and the Soviet occupation authorities had cajoled the Social Democrats in the eastern zone to merge with the KPD to form the Socialist Unity Party. Ostensibly a union of equals, the SED soon became a full-fledged Communist party along lines similar to other parties in what would become the Soviet bloc. The SED and the occupation authorities soon pressured the other parties into forming a permanent coalition under SED leadership. This coalition presented a single, SED-dominated "unity list" in the Constitutional Assembly elections held in May 1949. Although voters were only given the option of approving or rejecting the list in less-than-secret circumstances, official figures showed 66 percent of those turning out approved the list – by far the lowest total to which an SED-led alliance would admit during the four decades of Communist rule in East Germany."
These are a lot of claims and some wording that one could consider to be showing biased (cajoled, ostensibly, less-than-secret circumstances) and there are no sources cited. I added a citation needed tag but it may warrant deletion if there are no reliable sources (i.e. from the German Wikipedia article) to cite for these claims. Paritus34251 (talk) 21:22, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
