GDR
Bertolt Brecht (and me)
February 13, 2023Regardless of his sometimes sharp but always constructive criticism, Brecht supported the GDR attempt to build a socialist state in Germany with all his heart.
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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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Homage to Michael: My (East) German friend of half a century
January 15, 2021The World Federation of Democratic Youth, a pro-Communist network of student and young people’s organizations based in Prague, published World Student News, a magazine gently trying to promote peaceful coexistence and socialist politics. The magazine carried...
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New York-born GI who defected to the East back in USA
May 22, 2019Grossman is speaking about his new book: A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. The book tells about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990 and reasons for the fall of socialism...
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Socialism’s contradictions in ‘the other Germany’ and the Third World
July 11, 2018While East German leaders were confounded by some of the notions of their Mozambican brothers and sisters, Maoist Chinese students, or how to handle Angela Davis, they did seem deeply committed to making socialism real.
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