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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain

The Rest Is History

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The Importance of Gender Equality in East Germany

The stereotype is that they're pumping particularly women with steroids. And so you have all these kind of bearded women with huge muscles. So in other words, do you think East Germany was a better place than we commonly think in the West? Or am I now swinging too far to the other extreme? "I think it was a more normal place than people think it is rather than better," he says.

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