East Germany
Belt and Road summit: Xi pledges investment, promises to open Chinese markets
October 20, 2023The Chinese president promised foreign companies greater access to China’s huge market and to invest billions in new financing for other developing economies.
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What qualifies one as a U.S. patriot?
July 5, 2023A man who deserted the U.S. Army to live in a communist country gives us his answer.
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East German author Katja Oskamp wins Dublin Literary Award with ‘Marzahn, Mon Amour’
June 1, 2023Oskamp writes with understanding and compassion, preserving and enacting the sense of solidarity and community that was a feature of GDR society.
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The late East Germany, a new (distorted) history in review
April 12, 2023Katja Hoyer’s “Beyond the Wall” only underlines the mainstream Western narrative of the GDR as a totalitarian state with few, if any, redeeming features.
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Hans Modrow, 1928-2023: Son of the German Democratic Republic
February 22, 2023The man who oversaw the peaceful yet tragic end to state socialism in the east, then stayed to fight for the working class in the newly unified Germany, passed away on February 10, aged 95.
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