#Coldwar 'Big 750', #Berlin 1987, #EastGermany In 1987 Berlin celebrated it's 750 #anniversary with pomp and pageantry. #GDR #DDR #Karlmarxallee #celebration #parade #Socialism #socialismo #communism #socialist #communist #History

Scenes of East Berlin shot by Tom Benjamin. If you appreciate beautiful photography of interesting architecture, you really ought to be following Tom on his travels around Europe in search of brutalism and more.

Escape tunnel underneath Berlin Wall opens to public news.yahoo.com/escape-tunnel-…

How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin
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How an art centre in a former power station is harnessing the word ‘no’ to help save the planet theartnewspaper.com/2024/04/09/how…

If you have the chance to learn German, grab it. It takes languages to another level & makes sense of Danish, Dutch, Swedish & more. It explains English grammar. It's the official language of 6 countries & the 12th most spoken language in the world. It's well worth the challenge.

Has anyone heard of a 1960s English pop/rock group called LSD? I've googled, but can't see anything. They are mentioned in a Stasi file I am reading.

Espionage’s unintended consequences
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#Gymnastics & #Pills : An #EastGerman #Childhood

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The podium of the 1964 Peace Race.

L-R: Dieter Wiedemann, Jan Smolik (winner), Günter Hoffmann.

Had an online tutorial with a student before. He was speaking but I couldn't hear him. He tried everything but nothing worked. I made him restart his laptop. Then I made him log into Teams on his phone. That's when I realised my laptop volume had been muted. What a dickhead! 😅😅

I don't have a cover yet, but there is already an Amazon page for The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State amazon.de/-/en/Lisa-Pine…

In 1972, the SED reported that there was no drugs problem in the #GDR because the Party had created a society which gave no person a reason to 'want to flee into a dream world'. 🌈🦄

Interrupted Emancipation: Women and Work in East Germany thetricontinental.org/dossier-74-wom…

'Puzzle Women': Piecing together the files destroyed by East Germany's secret police youtu.be/fe4qU9xYNiE?si… EastGermanyOnline 🇺🇦 German at Portsmouth The View East RadioGDR

Breaking Through the Iron Curtain: the daring first punk show in East Berlin
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Stasi murder trial 50 years after Berlin Wall shooting
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Former Stasi officer faces trial for 1974 Berlin border shooting
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Just sent off the manuscript for: 'The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State' to the publisher. Turns out writing short books is just as hard as writing long books.

Here's a training film about drugs produced for Stasi officers. #GDR stasi-mediathek.de/medien/schulun…