East Berlin
Americannoun
noun
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The Russian House of Science and Culture, a seven-storey building opened in 1984 in what was then East Berlin, is located near the Russian embassy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
In 1974 he left Poland, ostensibly to spend the weekend in East Berlin.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
East Berlin has become the art world’s Shenzhen, a low-paid back office for a global cultural industry.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Barenboim was credited with leading the Staatsoper, which is located in what was communist East Berlin until 1990 and is one of three opera houses in reunited Germany’s capital, to world renown after reunification.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
We had a million laughs in Hamburg and West Berlin and East Berlin and Vienna and Salzburg and Helsinki, and in Leningrad, too.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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