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* ''Film/TheLivesOfOthers'', 2006 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film.

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* ''Film/TheLivesOfOthers'', 2006 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film. The actor playing the agent of UsefulNotes/TheStasi who spies on a playwright, Creator/UlrichMuhe, was himself an activist denouncing the regime's lack of rights and freedom for individuals and was himself spied on.
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The leaders of the freshly founded GDR were Walter Ulbricht ("the guy with the Lenin beard"), Wilhelm Pieck ("the guy with the potbelly") and Otto Grotewohl ("the guy with the glasses" - not [[Creator/DougWalker this one]], obviously). As early as 1953, shortly after UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's death, the state had its first big crisis when workers rose against the government on June 17th. It didn't end too well. Even Communist author Creator/BertoltBrecht criticized the government in his poem ''The Solution'': "Would it not be simpler then for the government, To dissolve the people and elect another?"

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The leaders of the freshly founded GDR were Walter Ulbricht ("the guy with the Lenin beard"), Wilhelm Pieck ("the guy with the potbelly") and Otto Grotewohl ("the guy with the glasses" - not [[Creator/DougWalker this one]], obviously). As early as 1953, shortly after UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's death, the state had its first big crisis when workers rose against the government on June 17th. It didn't end too well. Even Communist author Creator/BertoltBrecht criticized the government in his poem ''The Solution'': "Would it not be simpler then for the government, To government/To dissolve the people and elect another?"
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The ''Deutsche Demokratische Republik'' (German Democratic Republic) was what was created in 1949 when the UsefulNotes/{{Soviet|Russia Ukraine And So On}} zone of occupied UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII became its own country. Accordingly, it was CommieLand.

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The ''Deutsche Demokratische Republik'' (German Democratic Republic) was what a UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}an state that was created in 1949 when the UsefulNotes/{{Soviet|Russia Ukraine And So On}} zone of occupied UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII became its own country.country after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Accordingly, it was CommieLand.

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