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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The Importance of Existential Fears in the GDR
Most people at that stage don't want East Germany to end. They've got a stake in their own society. Why do they throw it away? It's an interesting question because you get like really existential fears from a lot of people as well. But once that border is open, one problem is that when we talked about the Berlin Wall earlier, it was there for a reason. The same problem again. And that people would have migrated West very quickly.
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