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Triumph of the Eastern Will: How the Olympics came clean about winning
A version of this article originally appeared in The Big Issue Magazine By the time you read this a couple of weeks will have passed since the end of the London 2012 Games. The Paralympics are about to start. Politicians … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Sport, Uncategorized
Tagged 70s, 80s, Anabolic steriods, communism, DDR, Doping, East Germany, elitism, FTW, GDR, Nadia Comeneci, Olga Korbut, Rebecca Adlington, Tom Daley, Ye Shiwen
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Fighting press unfreedom: Lessons from the Iron Curtain for the Arab Spring
The name “Arab Spring” suggested to Europeans and Americans that the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa shared much with those in the Sovet Bloc that ended more than 40 years of Communist rule. But do they? … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab Spring, censorship, DDR, Egypt, EU, journalism, Poland, politics, Soviet era, Stasi
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