It was not only the first Bundestag election, but it was also the first free election since the fall of 1932 during the crisis-ridden final days of the Weimar Republic...So in that respect, it was a new start for voting, for democracy, and for settling into a political framework that didn't exist before.
Only the three victorious Western powers allowed voting, while the Soviet Union installed a communist system in its occupation zone to the East without free elections.
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