In most cases, the state and the citizens of the GDR financed the stay and study of the foreigners through so-called solidarity funds with the goal of putting down a marker against the imperialistic Western States. ... Another example of solidarity support between the GDR and SRV was the ''Vietnam-Aktion'' of the 1960s. ... Behind the economic motivations, mostly suggested to the GDR by the Soviet regime as the leader of the CMEA to spruce up their image as a wide-standing example of solidarity. ... To hide the weaknesses of their own regime from the public, they used work...

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