German democratic republic

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990): a former country in Central Europe. historical

    "Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR)."

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"Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR)."

Etymology

Calque of German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

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