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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1604151, member: 39&quot;]Don&#039;t you just love such generalizations? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another piece - not creepy by design but by historical context so to say. This coin celebrates 40 years of the German Democratic Republic (1989) and quotes the first words of the country&#039;s national anthem - &quot;Risen from ruins and facing the future&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Putting more anthem text on the coin would have been difficult anyway, as the fourth line of the GDR anthem referred to the &quot;united fatherland&quot;. (So it was played but not sung on official occasions.) What is kind of creepy is the &quot;facing the future&quot; on the coins: Half a year later the old GDR regime came to an end. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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