Gesellschaft für DSF

The Society for German-Soviet Friendship – in German Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Sowjetische Freundschaft (DSF) – was an East German organization founded 1949. It was set up to encourage closer co-operation between the German Democratic Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Following the disbanding of the German Democratic Republic, the organization was dissolved. The name has inspired band names that play on the name of the DSF, for instance the German band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, which means German-American Friendship, as well as J.U.F., the Jewish Ukrainian Freundschaft