1968 East – 1968 West

The 1960s was a dynamic decade, a time of upheavals and revolts, as well as a heyday of folk music, engagé singer-songwriters and songs of political protest. By Lutz KirchenwitzMore ...

When looking at the history of the Federal Republic and the GDR, one usually stresses the differences. And the 1960s seemed to confirm this pattern: in the West a decade of complete culture-revolutionary upheaval that culminated in "1968"; in the East, after the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the consolidation of the Socialist system that displayed its unwillingness to reform in a dramatic way in 1968 with the suppression of the "Prague Spring".By Kaspar MaaseMore ...