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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The Unification of Germany in 1989
Erich Honecker and Chancellor Koll had a fairly workable, amicable relationship. East Germany is one of the most widely read societies in the world at that point. People are very intelligent because they've been basically well educated to a much like they all take the same schooling to your tent. There's no attempt to listen to people, to try and bring in reforms with Honneke becoming increasingly old and getting ill. And you see that developing into protests now to start with on late 60s and early 70s for similar reasons as under Condor Dada.
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