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East Berlin(GDR), 1989.10.7:

The Final Birthday Party

Today, exactly twenty years ago the ruling elite of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) tried to celebrate with great pomp the 40th anniversary of GDR's foundation...

But there was just one big problem: a growing number of the East Germans already became sick of these fuckers!

And so, while in the evening the gov't and the "ruling" party (Socialist Unity Party of Germany/SED) leadership gave a official reception (incl. state dinner and dancing party) in the Palace of the Republic...

...only few meters away, opposite of the palace, thousands of people gathered to demand political and social freedom - just the democratic reformation of the country...

But while in that night the demonstrations were brutal smashed by police forces and State Security Service ("Stasi") agents...

...only two days (1989.10.9) later, when hundreds of thousands took the streets all across East Germany, the authority of the state gave up!
And just one month later the GDR (resp. its revisionist regime) was almost history...

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