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A good, if brief, book on the lead-up to reunification is "The Fall of the GDR: Germany's Road to Unity". The biggest takeaway for me was how incredibly rapidl
by fiatmoney 11y ago
A good, if brief, book on the lead-up to reunification is "The Fall of the GDR: Germany's Road to Unity". The biggest takeaway for me was how incredibly rapidly the collapse progressed once it began - effectively, no one stepped in to stop it and feedback loops took over.
- _0ffh 11y agoRight! My take on it is that Gorbachev did not have the stomach for a rerun of Czechoslovakia 1968. And what a lucky thing that was!