What does the abbreviation DDR mean?
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Correct answer to question 190: German Democratic Republic
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DDR is the abbreviation for Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic), the East German state that existed from 1949 to 1990. Despite the name it was not a democracy but a one-party dictatorship under the SED.
The question in German, as it appears in the test
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