German Democratic Republic
About German Democratic Republic
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist workers' and peasants' state.
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I feel threatened by that still. They infiltrated everybody. That's the thing about the stars. They were the biggest administrators of any, so out of the whole of German history, from the Middle Ages to World War II, there were more written records kept in the 40 years of the German Democratic Republic than the rest of German history put together. Really? There were... It's all bad poetry.
from No Such Thing As Deckchair Wrestling, 2022-11-04 at 00:08:57 · read transcript
Other times German Democratic Republic came up
I've got one. This is from Felix Weyer. Felix's fact is that in 1995, the German Democratic Republic, that is East Germany, won a bronze medal 4.5 years after it ceased to exist. Riddle me this.
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- Leipzig · Germany
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Coordinates: 52.5167, 13.4000