Stasi espionage in the 1970s and 1980s, according to a new study, increased the GDR’s GDP by 7.4% by 1988, the last full year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The work was prepared with support from Rockwool Foundation Berlin.

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After the victory of the far right in the parliamentary elections in Saxony-Anhalt, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation Kirill Dmitriev wrote on his X: «I look forward to jointly building a great future together with ‘AfD’ — Germany’s most popular party». Russian authorities have indeed long supported this party, and elections in eastern Germany may affect the result of the federal elections to the Bundestag. However, not necessarily in favor of AfD. 

#AlternativeforGermany #VladimirPutin #EastandWest #elections #GDR #Germany #DonaldTrump #migrants #society #rightandleft #Russianinfluence #SaxonyAnhalt #ultraright #fascism #Economy

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