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322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain

The Rest Is History

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The Psychological Impact of the German Exiles in Russia

Only a quarter of German exiles in Russia survived the purges. They've always been persecuted for who they were politically, for where they stood. A lifetime's worth of persecution has got to have some sort of political impact on the way that you set up a state. So is there a future? Is there an alternative universe in which there is a United Germany going into the 1950s?

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