German Democratic Republic (GDR)

The German Democratic Republic (GDR), known as East Germany, has for decades conducted a program of coactive distribution and administration of substances such as testosterone and other anabolic steroids to improve the athletic performance of its elite athletes for the purpose of enhancing Image and prestige of the communist state through success in international competitions (such as the Olympic Games). This program was officially named State Plan 14.25. The execution of this plan, which was produced with or without the knowledge of the athletes, resulted in multiple victories in international championships. Being a pioneer state in its use, East Germany is considered the inventor of doping.

Most of the children were in sports centers for children and were identified by the government to be recruited for intensive Olympic training. These children were expected to achieve great victories and the state was willing to do everything in their power to ensure this. Advances in medicine made the use of steroids, amphetamines, growth hormone and blood doping a common practice in training centers for professional athletes. The Sportvereinigung Dynamo (Club Dynamo Sport) was especially noted as a center where doping was widely practiced.

In the Olympic Games of Mexico 1968, the GDR, a country of 17 million inhabitants, obtained 9 gold medals. Four years later they got 20, and in 1976 they doubled the figure again to 40.This was repeated in 'enemy territory' in the JJOO. Of Munich 1972ː the GDR never dropped from third place in the medal. The total number of medals that the participants of the GDR obtained in the Olympic Games. Winter and summer from 1956 to 1988 was 203 gold medals, 192 silver and 177 bronze medals.

In 1977, weightlifter Ilona Slupianek, weighing 93 kg, tested positive for anabolic steroids at the Helsinki European. After the Slopianek affair, the GDR athletes underwent checks in secret before leaving the country. Those who are positive, were expelled from international competitions. Normally, sanctions were temporary and were not intended as punishment but as a means of protecting the athlete and East Germany from international sanctions.

Then on 26 August 1993, after the former GDR had agreed to annex the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990, the records were opened, and the evidence was there. "The Stasi, the state secret police of the GDR, oversaw systematic doping The East German athletes from 1971 to reunification.