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Riemann's Testimony In The Lost World Of Communism

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The cold war was a political, economy and military confrontation between the capitalist bloc (led by the US and NATO) and the communist bloc (led by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact) after World War II (WWII) during 1947-1991. Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II (WWII), the entire country was separately occupied by Western Allies and the Soviet army. The testimony protagonist of the primary document is Erika Riemann, who was be sentenced as a political prisoner 8 years and 16 days while she was a teenager. She escaped to West Germany after she be released in January 1984. She was interviewed to share her be imprisoned experience under the communism. It was published in ‘The lost World of Communism, which is a BBC book. This analysis will focus on her testimony which as a first-person account address to which event and aim is compare with the …show more content…

For instance, Riemann’s testimony was lack of the detail of anti-fascist or Denazification which only can provide her experience about the fascist’s music of Mozart had be banned for the camp’s theatre performance (Molloy 2009). There has an extra information from the secondary source (Williamson 2000) which is Nazi text books were destroyed or the page of the Nazi were removed. Also, she was mention about they condition of living was worse and still have the famine and the misery of be reigned. According to ODochartaigh (2003), the Stalinisation in the East Germany was re-established the political life and planned economy involved state ownership. Ultimately, the party under the Stalinisation had a poor performance because of the high-handed policies and its close identification with the Soviet Union. So, the people’s life under the Stalinisation were painful. About these things Riemann had not detailed in the testimony, that can be enhanced through the secondary

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