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Move underway to rescue East Germany from anti-communist historians May 3, 2021 1:02 PM CDT By Vijay Prashad
Erasing East Germany: The ship named Berlin Capital of the DDR has the initials of the German Democratic Republic painted over at a shipyard in Hamburg in September 1990. | Christian Eggers / AP
A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the socialist countries states of Eastern Europe gave way to a capitalism that forced its way in the first salvo came when Hungary opened its border with Austria.