GDR
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The trainee car mechanic’s view is one that echoes through the streets of towns, cities and villages that once made up the communist GDR.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024
She said UBS is also discussing with Chinese firms about listing in Frankfurt once rules are in place, so "our GDR mandates will keep coming".
From Reuters ● Nov. 14, 2022
After hours of interrogation, he acknowledged his homosexuality and signed a “letter of commitment” pledging his support to the “security forces of the GDR in their righteous fight.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
But even though the GDR was a Soviet puppet state its leaders were keen to establish their own links with a deeper German history, including its military tradition.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2020
For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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