Germany - 20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain - Ostalgie

An old mirador from the Communist era, near the former border between East and West Germany. The German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, was a socialist state created by the Soviet Union in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany, including the Soviet sector of occupied Berlin. East Germany existed from October 7, 1949 until October 3, 1990, when the New Lander, the re-established states, acceded to the adjacent Federal Republic of Germany, thus creating the current state of Germany. | Location: Henneberg, Thuringia, Germany. (Photo by Thierry Tronnel/Corbis via Getty Images)