In the egalitarian world of East German Communism, a factory manager enjoys much higher social prestige, and pay, than a doctor.

It maintains a large embassy here, a legacy of the days of East German Communism.

A Security Risk But it was not only the wall and East German Communism that kept the general from seeing his nephew.

Not surprisingly, many of the organizers of the peaceful 1989 revolution against German Communism emerged from religious circles.

The peaceful revolution exposed German Communism as worse than a failure: It was a fraud.

The delegates heard a scathing report denouncing East German Communism since the late 1940's as Stalinist.

To understand the swift collapse of East German Communism, see Leipzig.

It was on the streets of this historic city that the movement to overthrow German Communism gathered force in the autumn of 1989.

Some plaques commemorating events in the history of German Communism are to be replaced with others that describe events in more neutral terms.

Some found it wooden and cliche-ridden, but others praised it for probing the day-to-day reality of East German Communism.