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Life in East Germany in photos
EAST Germany came into being in 1949. It was the communist German Democratic Republic. In 1961, the Berlin Wall split the city between East and West Germany. In 1968, the East German constitution stated that unification was impossible until the West became socialist. In 1990, Germany was reunified. The West had won the Cold War. What was life like back then behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany? These photos present a compelling picture:
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FILE --- In this May 2, 1986 file photo a car is checked on radioactive contamination at the East German border shortly after the Chernobyl disaster. Now in 2011 many Germans are worried about Sushi from Japan. But the real radiation risk may be some of the country's wild game and mushrooms, showing the long-lasting effects of a nuclear catastrophe a quarter century after the Soviet Union's Chernobyl reactor spewed radiation across Europe. (AP Photo/Udo Weitz)
