Key player: Nato secretary-general Jans Stoltenberg at Nato HQ in Brussels, February 2022. EPA-EFE/Stéphanie Lecocq 14 fevereiro 2022 Ukraine: the history behind Russia’s claim that Nato promised not to expand to the east Gavin E.L. Hall, University of Strathclyde Russia insists that there was an agreement not to expand Nato eastwards after the end of the USSR. History begs to differ.
Dakota Corbin/Unsplash 12 outubro 2020 Women in work: how East Germany’s socialist past has influenced West German mothers Anna Raute, Queen Mary University of London; Barbara Boelmann, UCL e Uta Schoenberg, UCL East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to participate in the labour market full-time, whereas West Germany propagated a more tradition male breadwinner model.
The Berlin Wall in October 1988. 360b/Shutterstock.com 10 novembro 2019 30 years after the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany are still divided Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University East Germans feel alienated and powerless. They see themselves as second-class citizens, while outsiders live high on what is rightfully theirs.
When the Wall came down: Berlin 1989. Raphaël Thiémard 7 novembro 2019 Berlin Wall: how techno music united Germany on the dance floor Beate Peter, Manchester Metropolitan University Young people from both East and West Germany congregated in nightclubs which were hastily thrown up in the spaces where the Wall had dominated.