The idea behind this change was to encourage people to wave flags that authorities would hand out to them before parades and other events to signify East German pride.
[6] Economic, political, and social changes in the DDR as well as the total reorganization of government, industrial, and employment systems resulted in new words and compounds being developed.
[6] Words such as Betriebspaß ("the general characteristics of a factory in regard to its technical and economic state") and kollektivieren (the verb used for the action of nationalizing land) were established and given meanings to activities specific to the East German government.
[7] Hausbuch was the book each residential block kept to enter residents' and visitors' details and to document visitors from West Germany, which was checked regularly by East German police, and Westpaket was the word for care packages that were sent to East Germany from the West.
"[6] Der Arbeiterstudent was created to describe a student who was previously a manual worker before deciding to study.