After the occupation of GDR by the Bolsheviks in 1921, many Georgian Mensheviks led by Zhordania fled to Leuville-sur-Orge, France where they set up, in a small castle, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Exile.

The handball team played in the GDR " Oberliga " and since 1990 they are playing in the 1st and 2nd " Bundesliga ".

While West Germany received loans and other financial assistance from the United States, the GDR was in the role of an exporter of goods to the USSR — a role that its people could ill afford but which they could not avoid.

Along the way, they encountered GDR security forces — regular and Barracked People ’ s Police units ( KVP )— who, apparently lacking instructions, initially did not intervene.

By 10: 30 a. m., concerned about the growing disorder, the Soviet ambassador Semyonov ordered the leadership to proceed to the Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst, from which they were finally dispatched to major cities in an effort to observe and maintain political control throughout the GDR.

From then until the dissolution of the GDR, they used it as a private retreat for high functionaries, including the GDR heads of state Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker.

When people tried to " defect " from the GDR they were to be shot on sight.

On the other hand, the GDR citizenship of some " inconvenient " East Germans was revoked, and they had to leave their home on short notice against their will.

Together with the eight electees from the “ Green Party in the GDR ”, they created the Fraktion Bündnis 90 / Grüne (“ Alliance ’ 90 / Greens Party ”).

To the statement of the interviewing journalist that " GDR inhabitants did not have the freedom to travel wherever they wanted ", Germans replied that " present-day low-wage workers do not have that freedom either ".

Fairy-tale movies from those countries and the GDR were also in high esteem among adults, as they were frequent vehicles for covert criticism of the political and economical elite.

It was specified that the Soviet armed forces were not to interfere into the internal affairs of the GDR, as they had done during the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.

In the inter-German qualification prior to the 1964 Olympic Games, the two played a two-legged preliminary round tie, the GDR advancing to represent Germany as they won their home leg 3-0, while the FRG won the return 2-1.

It is still not certain how many people died on the inner German border or who they all were, as the GDR treated such information as a closely guarded secret.

In the GDR Die Heiden von Kummerow and Die Gerechten von Kummerow were his most popular works ; they were seen as a German pendant to Guareschi's narrations about Don Camillo and Peppone.

While today listed under the IOC codes of FRG and GDR, respectively, in 1968 they were asymmetrically called in French Allemagne ( Germany ) and Allemagne de l ' Est ( East Germany ), and in Spanish Alemania and Alemania del Este.

The verdicts generally agree that even the common soldier should have and must have recognised that the GDR border laws were so fundamentally in conflict with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the GDR had signed and ratified, that they were not law at all but formalized injustice, and thus the soldiers ought to have disobeyed their commanding officers.

This zone, part of a complex border system which extended several kilometres into the GDR, was intended to catch people trying to escape across the border to the West before they reached the actual border fences.

* After 1991 they acquired the former East-German ( GDR ) camera and lens manufacturer Pentacon / Practica ( Dresden )

In their uniforms, and with their children's enthusiasm, they were an attractive accompaniment to GDR anniversaries and festivals.

As a result of the differing policies used by each state, following the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification in 1990 many of the foreign workers within the GDR did not have legal status as immigrant workers, as they would be classified within the Western system.

On 18 March 1990, the PDS lost significant influence in the first free elections in GDR history ; the Alliance for Germany coalition, led by the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), won the election.

However the GDR 4 x 100 meter relay team, in which Stecher ran the second, leg won the Gold.

The former soccer team " SG Waggonbau Dessau " won the GDR soccer cup in 1949.

Free and secret communal ( local ) elections were held in the GDR on 6 May, and the CDU again won most of the available seats.

In 1989, Turbine won their sixth and final GDR championship.

After a preliminary study of literature, Bahro began in 1972 with the part-time work on his dissertation on the development conditions of the high school and technical college job openings in state-owned enterprises of the GDR, which was to bring part of his project in the academic discourse.

In the 1972 Olympic Games, the GDR and FRG, having qualified from their First Round groups, met in the Second Round, with the GDR winning 3-2.

East Germany's state television newscast, Aktuelle Kamera, reported on the ceremony and the unveiling of a bust of Ernst Thälmann on 18 August 1972 in the presence of the GDR ambassador, some East German delegates, and approximately 100 Cuban representatives.

Like the Transit Agreement of 1972, the discussions were led by the Under-Secretaries of State Egon Bahr ( for the FRG ) and Michael Kohl ( for the GDR ).

* Basic Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR ( December 21, 1972 ) on the German Historical Institute Website

In 1972, the DFF was renamed, dropping the pretense of being an all-German service and becoming Fernsehen der DDR ( GDR Television ) or DDR-FS.

* Scharnhorst Order, three times ( GDR, 1972, 1986, 1987 )

Other prominent GDR authors who dealt with the uprising include Stefan Heym ( Fünf Tage im Juni / " Five Days in June ", Munich 1974 ) and Heiner Müller ( Wolokolamsker Chaussee III: Das Duell / " Volokolamsk Highway III: The Duel ", 1985 / 86 ).

An Italian truck driver and member of the Italian Communist Party was shot at a crossing point in August 1976 ; the GDR government was severely embarrassed and, unusually, offered an apology.

In 1976, Götting was elected Chairman of the People's Friendship League of the GDR.

* 1976 GDR master

In 1976 the East German government ( GDR ) forbade Krug to work as an actor and singer because he participated in protests against the expulsion and stripping of GDR citizenship of Wolf Biermann.

The ribbon bar consisted of the vertical bars consisting of the national colors of black, red and gold with a gold medal GDR state symbol attached to the center of the ribbon.

beginning of school in the GDR, 1980

* Foreign Honorary Member of the National Academy of Sciences ( United States, 1959 ), American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1960 ), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( 1961 ); a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( 1962 ), GDR Academy of Sciences ( 1966 ), Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( 1970 ), Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg ( 1968 ), Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( 1980 ), Indian Academy of Sciences ( 1983 ), Mongolian Academy of Sciences ( 1983 )