BERLIN (Reuters) - East Germans are nostalgic for the "good life" they had under communism despite a propaganda campaign to discredit the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the widow of ex-GDR leader Erich Honecker says in a new... [read full story]
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall "ostalgia" or nostalgia for the East has led to a surge in popularity for East German products. Communist East Germany's architectural relics - like the television tower in the...
The GDR was more democratic, in the original and substantive sense of the word, than eastern Germany was before 1949 and than the former East Germany has become since the Berlin Wall was opened in 1989. It was also more...
Nearly 20 years after the fall of the Wall, communist East Germany is an enigma for young Germans. Some do not even know who built the Wall that divided Germany for decades, but educators are trying to change that.
Erich Honecker, Augusto Pinochet, Angela Merkel, Non-Party Political Groups, Extreme Left Groups, US Political Parties, Berlin, Germany
