Tag: German Democratic Republic

• Saturday, November 9th 2019 - 10:36 UTC

  Life is communist Germany was simpler, almost comfortable, Angela Merkel recalls

  

  Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be “almost comfortable in a certain way”, Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up in the former East, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung.