The place of the German Democratic Republic in the system of international socialist division of labor in the mining industry is determined by factors common to all countries and specific only to the GDR. The factors favorable for the development of the mining industry of the GDR include the following: 1) large reserves and a significant amount of lignite and potassium salts; 2) the development of electricity production, the chemical and some other industries, corresponding to the reserves; 3) highly developed production of mining machinery and equipment, especially for surface mining; 4) advanced equipment and progressive technologies of mining, beneficiation and processing of many types of minerals.

The German Democratic Republic is an integral part of the world system of socialism and actively participates in the international socialist division of labor. The interstate division of labor, being the most important economic law of the development of the world socialist system, is becoming more and more important in accelerating the rate of expanded socialist reproduction and harbors inexhaustible possibilities for the flourishing of each socialist country and the world socialist commonwealth as a whole.

Among the richest ideological legacy left by V. I. Lenin, the cooperative plan occupies an important place. V. I. Lenin’s doctrine of cooperation as the main path for drawing the multimillion masses of the peasantry to socialism is the foundation of the agrarian policy of the proletariat during the transitional period from capitalism to socialism. The communist and workers’ parties of the people’s democracies, relying on Lenin’s cooperative plan and creatively using the experience of the socialist transformation of agriculture in the Soviet Union, are successfully carrying out the cooperation of the peasantry.