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Barbie, Lenin and Fake Hand Grenades | My Childhood in the Wild East

Anne Rosenbusch Jul 10, 2017 1

I was born in a country that today doesn’t exist anymore. It was called the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany. Founded in 1949, after the Second World War, as a socialist bulwark against West Germany, it became a satellite…

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