This changed in 1968 with the new constitution of the German Democratic Republic. The communists no longer strove for German reunification, and the name BRD was introduced as a propaganda counter-term to the term DDR, trying to express the equality of the states.[13] The West would speak of the sogenannte DDR [14] or "so-called 'DDR'"[15] when intending to belittle East German statehood.