East Germany Becoming a Retro Utopia 15 Years On
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The yellowing linoleum and faded wallpaper in the former prison of the East German secret police would be ultra hip in any German bar.
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PRAGUE, Nov 24 (IPS) - Millions in Eastern Europe remain convinced that  life was better for them before communism collapsed 15 years ago.
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Property is a key factor in the march of expat Britons around Europe. But the reality is far removed from the dream of massive returns in former Eastern bloc nations.
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The work of Neo Rauch, one of Germany's most successful artists, features a narrative style somewhere between Surrealism and Social Realism.
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Today, Germans remember the fall of the Berlin Wall -- an ecstatic night of pure joy when the communist East German government allowed its citizens unhindered access to the bright lights, well-stocked ...
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East Germans gave a strong boost to right wing extremists and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the countryâs biggest mainstream parties for the regionâs high unemployment and cuts in social programmes.
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Fourteen years and a trillion euros  after reunification one in five Germans would like to see the  barrier that split the country during the Cold War put back, a  survey found Wednesday.
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Nostalgia for symbols of the former communist East Germany remains a money-spinner in Berlin.
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BERLIN  - Germany marked a subdued 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday, weighed down by high unemployment in the formerly communist east and a sense in people's hearts the country is not yet fully reunited.
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The 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist Party is marked by Czechs.
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Germany is grappling with an unexpected  consequence of the industrialized world's aging population: how  to integrate its immigrant pensioners.
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Nov. 9 marked the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but for one generation of East Germans the date was less an occasion to get out the champagne than to ponder the vagaries of their new national ...
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BERLIN Nearly 15 years since masses of demonstrators swelled the streets of East Germany, toppling the Berlin Wall and uniting Germany, a new wave of protests is rolling through eastern towns and cities from ...
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Germany has commemorated the country&#39;s 1990 unification as debate raged about continued east-west divisions, the financial cost of the process and whether the federal state even has a future.
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"There's no greater joy than sitting on the beach without any clothes on"  George W. Bush has often expressed his admiration for the yearning for freedom in Communist East Germany that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall on his father's watch 18 years ago. via Reuters UK
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More than a decade and a half after the   collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new east-west divide has opened   up in the city which was for 40 years the front-line of the   Cold War.
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The up-to-date life in Belarus looks like a parody for the "best time" that people used to lead during the era of the USSR.