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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain
The Rest Is History
The Importance of Coffee in the Cold War
Deutschland 83 is a brilliant drama about Anis German who goes to the West. But at the same time, the impression I get from your book is that the blue jeans almost serves as a kind of sugar rush for people in East Germany. And when that starts to crash, that is a problem for these Germans because basically they're starting to run out of money. So you have this as early as 1977, this crisis in sourcing coffee, which is incredibly important.
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