Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer review overturning cliches of East Germany
Briefly

By 1988, the average East German drank 142 litres of beer a year, double the intake of the average West German.The obvious explanation is they drank to escape the unbearable awfulness of being in the German Democratic Republic, with its omnipresent Stasi, clown-car Trabants, travel restrictions, gerontocratic rulers, grim Baltic holidays and laughable elections.
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