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Surely you remember that bit of masterful 20th-century propaganda? In 1966, Mao Zedong, the communist leader who united China and brought it back from the brink of ruin, famously swam the Yangtze. This stunt confounded the China hands and others who had believed that Mao was either dead - done...
Schroeder is the author of a recent study about how little German youngsters today actually know about the GDR. He and his colleagues surveyed over 5,000 students aged between 15 and 17, and found that many, especially those actually living in areas that formed part of East Germany, have...
"What people remember is not the real GDR, but a fictitious country that never existed," says Schroeder, whose study caused a stir when it was published last month. "We have published many studies in the past, but we never had such a strong resonance," he says. "This issue is really...
So how is it that a political system that many remember only for the pain and trauma it inflicted is a source of nostalgia for others? Schroeder is sure that parents and teachers are to blame. "The older people are aware of what the GDR really was like, but they...
Both the major-party candidates for President have now made their first major decision - on a running mate - and I can't remember a year when the selections were more revealing about the character of the candidates. What we have is a choice between a conservative and a radical.