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The former East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1949 until 1990, which installed a rigid communist state known as the German Democratic Republic, or GDR.

Then came the legacy of the German Democratic Republic, the former Soviet-occupied East Germany, which lasted 40 years and self-identified as anti-fascist and anti-Western.

German reunification, which was accompanied by a raft of subsidies to ease East Germany’s absorption into the Federal Republic, merely formalized this one-sided relationship.

East Germany is, quite simply, part of German history and the country she grew up in. To ignore it, or to understand it through Cold war clichés, would be to misunderstand German history as a whole.