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Article: How to bleed a Red nation white. (East Germans emigrate to West Germany for political reasons)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 25, 1989
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Through the night, the "Trabies" came. The funny East German autos, their tiny two-stroke engines wheezing up one long grade and down another, pushed through Hungary, across Austria and onward to West Germany-and freedom. Behind was East Germany: Em-
barrassed, angry and gasping at the loss of the very workers who once made it the shining suecess story of the Communist world. In cars, on motorbikes and on foot, the throngs that spilled across the borders last week included doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers and mechanics.
For years, East Germany had held itself up as "Communism that
works." Now, on the 40th anniversary of the creation of the two ...