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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The Coercion of Hannekah
McGregor: East German leader has deep mistrust of his compatriots. He doesn't really trust them to do the right thing, and so that's one of the reasons why there's such a measure of coercion in his kind of approach. And I suppose in the long run, why the Iron Curtain and most notoriously the Berlin Wall in the M gave up? Because he can't rely on his fellow citizens in East Germany, not to head west.
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