Refugees Freedom Train

Freedom Train As thousands of its citizens flee to the West, East Germany celebrates a bitter 40th birthday

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Things are unraveling fast for the East German regime. Some Western analysts fear a longer-term crackdown, but that would merely increase internal pressure, not diminish it. In the long run, Honecker, or his successors, will be forced into reform. Yet steps toward democracy and a free-market economy pose a special peril for the G.D.R. If East Germany became more like West Germany, what would be the point of a separate state?

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