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"We wanted to transform East Germany“

November 11, 2016

He was a dedicated communist who chose to live in East Germany. He was a dissident and the regime revoked his citizenship. He talks about his break with communism and his conviction that you have to speak out.

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"We wanted to transform East Germany“

He was a dedicated communist who chose to live in East Germany. He became a dissident and the regime later revoked his citizenship. In the DW interview Wolf Biermann talks about his break with communism and his conviction that you have to speak out.