East Germany
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‘Beyond the Wall’: A objective look of the former German Democratic Republic
John Tully — Katya Hoyer is no apologist for the East German regime, but she has written a more objective history of the former state than the German establishment would like.
Heaven or hell? Books look back on the German Democratic Republic
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Stasi Hell or Workers’ Paradise?
`Freedoms won, freedoms lost' -- left views on the fall of the Berlin Wall
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November 15, 2009 -- For the past few weeks the international capitalist mass media has been awas