69 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people in the then GDR went on strike against the situation in the GDR at that time, troops of the SUand GDR People’s Police put down the protests in the following days, 55 documented deaths.
69 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people in the then GDR went on strike against the situation in the GDR at that time, troops of the SUand GDR People’s Police put down the protests in the following days, 55 documented deaths.
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For more Informationen:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_uprising_of_1953
Damn, time is fleeting, another year has passed…
Old habits seem to die hard, because somehow I still cherish this day. When I was young, June 17th used to be a bank holiday („Tag der deutschen Einheit“) in West-Germany.
you dont hear about that often.