DDR adopts a non German national conciousness

Thuringia is specific region of the former DDR, how would a Thuringian identity be applied to the rest of the DDR?
There is the Sorbian identity in parts of Thuringia and Saxony. The Sorbians are a West Slavic people in these regions with an own language and traditions. In the GDR Sorbians ambitions for preservation and autonomy had been surpressed by the Communists and labeled as" Nationalist and Titoist". During GDR time Sorbian language knowledge among the youth went down dramatically. The Communists kept a hard grip on Sorbian institutions and didn't wished, that they developed an own identity. The political organ of the Sorbians, the Domowina, was led by hard line Communists.
 
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Current Plattdüütsch seems to be heavily influenced by German, so unless you throw in some ambitious purist efforts, Low German is probably already that mix.
How succesfull might a program for the introduction of Plattdeutsch as the offical language be in DDR? How would non-Plattdeutsch areas recieve the change in offical language?
 
How succesfull might a program for the introduction of Plattdeutsch as the offical language be in DDR? How would non-Plattdeutsch areas recieve the change in offical language?
I am curious about that. Adults already have their language and are unlikely to change, which is why I focused on the children in my suggestion a few pages back. The next generation uses a somewhat different language from their parents, and in the case of language shift it is even more different. The question is how to make your preferred language attractive.

The current standard languages have succeeded in imposing themselves on the population, so they have obviously done something that works, although it has taken a number of generations, and breaking with an established standard seems harder, perhaps too hard, especially considering the lure of the still existing previous standard from the west, but DDR is reputed to have been a very oppressive regime, and having real support from the state should count for something, compared with failed cases of language politics such as Irish, where the government seems to have done everything wrong.
 
I think possibilities open up if Germany is not reconstituted after the war, and the occupying powers end up annexing their respective zones.
 
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