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The Federal Republic of Germany has become a new country. It has swallowed the GDR, the paragon of Soviet socialism, which was considered an influential member of the United Nations, and rated as the tenth richest country in the world.1 The GDR was bi-polarity’s perfect artificial creature and was thus bound to vanish together with bi-polarity itself. Germany is new because Europe is new. And Europe is new because the world is new. The United States is the only remaining superpower. The Soviet Union surrendered voluntarily in the cold war and gave up its superpower status.
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Heurlin, B. (1996). The International Position and the National Interest of Germany in the Nineties. In: Heurlin, B. (eds) Germany in Europe in the Nineties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25114-8_3
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