Pre-Military Training - Young People 1985

Attitude to the GDR, valuations on international policy, the
international balance of power and military organizations, stand on
defense preparedness and military service, participation in
pre-military training.
Topics: Goals in life such as high achievements, travels, making an
effort for socialism and peace, having money, leading a pleasant life
and founding a family; attitude to the victory of socialism;
solidarity with the GDR; attitude to the Soviet Union and its army,
the Marxist-Leninist world view; evaluation of the connection of
imperialism and war or socialism and peace; constructing socialist
society in the GDR; significance of the Geneva negotiations about
nuclear and space weapons; membership in mass organizations, SED;
possibility of preventing a war through peace forces; evaluation of
aggressiveness of imperialist states (scale); evaluation of policies
of the FRG government; assessment of the character of the Federal
German Armed Forces and of the readiness of the soldiers of the
Federal German Armed Forces to shoot; assessment of the balance of
power between imperialism and socialism; willingness to defend the
GDR and reasons for or against this (scale); attitude to military
service; preferred period of service: basic military service or
serving longer; reasons for preference of basic military service or
longer service (scale); stand of girl friend on decision to serve
longer; expected effects of military service on personal development
(scale); expected difficulties in military service such as observance
of order and discipline, adaptation, physical and mental demands
(scale); preference of an active or passive stand as soldier;
influence of planets on character and fate of people; knowledge of
terms of foreign policy such as peaceful co-existence, star wars;
knowledge of political personalities; interest in politics; frequency
of use of GDR and FRG media for political information and preferred
position; frequency of reading daily newspapers for political
information; participation in social activities in FDJ, MMM and
innovator movement, GST, peace events (scale); assessment of FDJ work
in training unit; acceptance of a personal task for the realization
of the battle program of the FDJ collective; attitude to pre-military
training; forms of pre-military training completed (scale); personal
training direction in GST and preparation for this; interest in
military policy schooling; activity and characteristic of personality
characteristics of GST instructor (scale); characteristic of
personality characteristics of comrades in training collective
(scale); presence of relatives or acquaintances in the FRG/West
Berlin; self-assessment of efforts in pre-military training and
reasons for this (scale); self-assessment of physical ability;
training results (scale); firing of KK-MPi in GST training or in
military instruction at the POS; result in practical firing; personal
effort in physical training; achievement demands of pre-military
training (scale); acceptance of a personal obligation in preparation
of the XI. Party Convention of the SED; type and effectiveness of
military policy schooling (scale); assessment of personal readiness
for discussion; frequency of reading topic magazines (scale);
knowledge about achievement conditions for the best badge of the GST;
personal obligation to achieve the best badge; evaluation of
schooling and living conditions in training camp of pre-military
training (scale); understanding for externally conspicuous young
people; necessity of general participation in GST paramilitary;
personal participation or future preferred paramilitary forms;
reasons for participation in GST paramilitary (scale); current
functions in GST paramilitary; assessment of various sides of
training and organization of GST paramilitary (scale); possession of
achievement badge of the GST paramilitary; personality characteristic
of paramilitary exercise leader (scale); frequency of meeting the
paramilitary collective and frequency of personal participation;
frequency of participation in paramilitary competitions (scale);
world view; frequency of participation in FDJ study year; membership
in social organizations (scale); possession of sports certificate of
the GDR; military training or activity of father; year of completing
pre-military training; current friendship or partnership; functions
in pre-military training; presence of a mentor or caregiver in
training; self-assessment of achievements in vocational training;
school degree.