 As recently as the late 1960s, many former residences that had been converted to barns and storehouses were still in use by the collective.The gradual relaxation of government controls that followed the Soviet Russian invasion and subsequent repression of 1956(2) and the slow economic recovery of the 1960s brought marked improvement to the lives of the townspeople.Indoor plumbing was installed, although it was so deficient people referred to it contemptuously as “sozialisch Arbeit."