Key player: Nato secretary-general Jans Stoltenberg at Nato HQ in Brussels, February 2022.
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Russia insists that there was an agreement not to expand Nato eastwards after the end of the USSR. History begs to differ.
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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.
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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.
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Young people from both East and West Germany congregated in nightclubs which were hastily thrown up in the spaces where the Wall had dominated.