German Democratic Republic

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Etymology

Calque of German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

Proper noun

the German Democratic Republic (abbreviated GDR)

  1. (historical) Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990): a former country in Central Europe.
    • 2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine[1]:
      Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).

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