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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The Trabant: The Ultimate Symbol of East Germany
In the 60s and 70s, there is a kind of consumer society developing in East Germany. By 1970, 56.4% of households had a fridge as against West Germany's 28%. There are holidays. So you have 18 days holiday year. And famously, you have the Trabant. The Trabant has become a symbol of how to crep at the socialist system because people looked at them rolling over the border in 1989 and stinking and smitten.
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