The Diversity of Oppositions to the State

In 1953 there was a mass uprising against the state with 1 million people out on the streets. So what triggered that in 1953? Mostly living standards so the fact that people were asked to work harder and harder and harder and yet there was nothing to buy from their money in the shops. The problem in the east was that Russia was actually taking a lot of reparations out of its zone and then its kind of allied state West Germany didn't pay any reparations or hardly any. And yet you know you work kind of 14, 16, 17 hours a day and you get nothing for it at the end and the state just sits there literally with its fingers and its ears going we're not