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The Ten Commandments of Socialist Morality and Ethics (German: Zehn Gebote der sozialistischen Moral und Ethik), also known as Ten Commandments for the New Socialist Man (German: 10 Gebote für den neuen sozialistischen Menschen), were proclaimed by Walter Ulbricht, then First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), at the fifth SED Party Congress (July 10 to July 16, 1958). Formally based on the biblicalTen Commandments, they summarized the political duties of every citizen of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), were incorporated into the SED's party program by the sixth SED party congress in 1963, and remained in it until 1976.[1]