35 years after the Berlin Wall opened, fragments of East Germany’s border remain
Most of communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border was torn down quickly after it was opened in 1989, but there are still places where visitors can see the remains of the Berlin Wall and other sections of the frontier.
Germany marks 1989 Berlin Wall fall with 'Preserve Freedom' party
November 9, 1989 is celebrated as the day East Germany's dictatorship opened the borders to the West after months of peaceful mass protests, paving the way for German reunification and the collapse of Soviet communism. One Berliner who remembers those ...
I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom ...
Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From ...
The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state ...
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How East Germany's 'traffic light man' became a beloved iconHow East Germany's 'traffic light man' became a beloved icon As Germany readies to mark 35 years since the Berlin Wall fell, one symbol of the former communist East has become an icon of reunification ...
The country’s ruling coalition collapsed on Wednesday, giving the parties an opportunity to reset and make the electorate a ...
Ikea is not alone in the matter, as East Germany was a hotspot for cheap labor under the communist regime, which many ...
Tupolev Tu-134: Created via an official directive from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, impressed by the quiet cabin of the ...
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Building a mosque in East GermanySuleman Malik is the spokesperson of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Erfurt, which is building a new mosque in an ...
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