Berlin Wall
The German Democratic Republic, a socialist state still villainized long after its demise
October 7, 2024Oct. 7, 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the German Democratic Republic. For several years in the 1980s, People’s World Editor John Wojcik served as chair of the U.S. Committee for Friendship with...
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Decades after Berlin Wall fell, Cold War victors still trashing East Germany
November 9, 2022The GDR, as the old East Germany was officially known, was a lot more than the totalitarian prop paraded out during anniversaries to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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Will it be the Kaiser’s ghost or a peace policy that prevails in Germany?
August 11, 2021That seems to be the big unanswered question on this, the 60th anniversary, of the Berlin Wall.
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Thoughts on the Berlin Wall 30 years after its demise
November 8, 2019East Germany was a lot more than the totalitarian prop that gets paraded out to prove the supposed superiority of capitalism over socialism.
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