In every East German "Jugendweihe" the young people would dedicate themselves to the ideals of the state. The pledge was altered five times by the Central Committee throughout its history. The general format of each pledge was the same; the opening, the question of ""Are you prepared..?"" and the response of ""Yes, we pledge!"" remained unchanged in each version. As time went past, however, the language of the pledge became ever more overtly patriotic and revolutionary. The first and second alterations of the pledge, made in 1955 and 1956, only made fairly minor changes in wording. The 1958 pledge, however, explicitly required young people to swear to the ""great and noble cause of socialism"", and to defend peace with the Soviet people, though also with ""all peace-loving people in the world"". The fourth alteration of the pledge, made on 21 November 1968, was even more revolutionary in tone; it dropped general references such as that to ""all peace-loving people"", and asked young people to ""defend socialism against every imperialist attack"". It accepted young people into a community ""under the direction of the working class and its revolutionary Party"". The final alteration, in 1985 (four years before the fall of the Berlin Wall), was minor in comparison, adding a paragraph in which the attendants pledged to respect and help one another, and extending the closing address, emphasising the ""heavy responsibility"" conferred on the newly come-of-age.