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Vinony

German Democratic Republic

proper noun

  1. former European country
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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: Calque of German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

  1. Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990): a former country in Central Europe.

    “Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).”