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The East Is Not Red - Capitalism After The Fall of the Wall

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Last broadcast on Tue, 10 Nov 2009, 02:40 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).

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Capitalism in the old Soviet bloc 20 years after the fall of the Wall, with views of entrepreneurs in Germany and Estonia. Have they thrived? West Germany prmoised that the East would be transformed into a "flourishing landscape" after the re-unification of Germany. Lucy Hooker reports from Saxony on whether it's happened.
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  1. Mon 9 Nov 2009
    08:32
  2. Mon 9 Nov 2009
    19:40
  3. Tue 10 Nov 2009
    02:40

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