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Demolition Recycler

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Gadarwara

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Game Differential Ratio

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Gas Delivery Regulators

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General Distributed Release

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General Distribution Release

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Generalized Data Retrieval

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Generative Drafting

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Generic Dispensing Rate

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Genesis Demolition Recycler

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Genome Database for Rosaceae

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Geographically Dispersed Resiliency

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Geophysical Data Record

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Geothermal Data Repository

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German Death Riders

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German Democratic Republic

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Ginny Draco Romance

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Gioco Di Ruolo

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Global Data Replication

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Global Data Review

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Global Deactivation of Radiation

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Global Debt Registry

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Global Demand Receipt

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Global Dental Relief

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Global Depositary Receipt

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Global Depository Receipt

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Global Depository Receipts

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Global Design Resources

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Global Development Range

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Global Development Research

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Glucose Disposal Rate

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Google Drive

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Gradual Dose Reduction

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Graduate Department of Religion

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Graduate Division of Religion

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Grand Domestic Revolution

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Graves Development Resources

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Great Dividing Range

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Grin Duck And Run

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Grossman Dorland Recruiting

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Group Designated Router

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Groupement de Recherche

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Groupes De Recherches

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Grup de Reformes

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Guaranteed damage reduction

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Guidance Document Repository

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East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʁepuˈbliːk] (listen), DDR, pronounced [ˌdeːdeːˈʔɛʁ] (listen)), was a country in Central Europe that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. Commonly viewed as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the surrender of Nazi Germany after World War II, when the Potsdam Agreement established the Soviet occupation zone, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR. From 1949 to 1989, East Germany was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship.The GDR was established in the Soviet-occupied zone of former Nazi Germany, while the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany, was established in the three Western US–UK–French occupied zones. A satellite state of the Soviet Union, Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948 and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October 1949, gaining sovereignty from the Soviet Union in 1955, although Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989, the GDR was governed by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), although other parties nominally participated in its alliance organization, the National Front of the German Democratic Republic. The SED made the teaching of Marxism–Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools.The economy was centrally planned and state-owned. Prices of housing, basic goods and services were heavily subsidized and set by central government planners rather than rising and falling through supply and demand. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, it became the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc. Emigration to the West was a significant problem as many of the emigrants were well-educated young people; such emigration weakened the state economically. In response, the government fortified its inner German border and built the Berlin Wall in 1961. Many people attempting to flee were killed by border guards or booby traps such as landmines. Those captured spent long periods of time imprisoned for attempting to escape. In 1951, a referendum in East Germany regarding the remilitarization of Germany was held, with 95% of the population voting in favour.In 1989, numerous social, economic and political forces in the GDR and abroad, one of the most notable being peaceful protests starting in the city of Leipzig, led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the establishment of a government committed to liberalization. The following year, a free and fair election was held and international negotiations led to the signing of the Final Settlement treaty on the status and borders of future-reunited Germany. The GDR ceased to exist when its states ("Länder") joined the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law on 3 October 1990. Several of the GDR's leaders, notably its last communist leader Egon Krenz, were later prosecuted for offenses committed during the GDR times.Geographically, the GDR bordered the Baltic Sea to the north, Poland to the east, Czechoslovakia to the southeast and West Germany to the southwest and west. Internally, the GDR also bordered the Soviet sector of Allied-occupied Berlin, known as East Berlin, which was also administered as the state's de facto capital. It also bordered the three sectors occupied by the United States, United Kingdom and France known collectively as West Berlin. The three sectors occupied by the Western nations were sealed off from the GDR by the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 until it was brought down in 1989.

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