Word: decin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...settled there after the expulsion-officially known by Czechs as the "transfer"-of 3 million Germans after the war, in 1945 and 1946. Another reason is that industrialization, avidly pursued during the years of communist rule in Prague, has stripped much of the land of its character. West of Decin, where we had crossed the Elbe, there is a new bridge, but the forest and meadow-the green countryside I remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like...
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