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East Germany: Dissenting Views during the Last Decade

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Opposition in Eastern Europe

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East Germany’s image as the hard core of Prussia, where soldiers still goosestep and where discipline and order are the cornerstones of everyday life,1 makes it difficult for many people to picture that dissenters2 exist there. However, opposition in the GDR exists, but it exists under conditions which are different from those in other East European countries.

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Volkmer, W. (1979). East Germany: Dissenting Views during the Last Decade. In: Tőkés, R.L. (eds) Opposition in Eastern Europe. St Antony’s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04472-6_4

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