😲 This Is What the Cold War Looked Like From the Other Side

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In the late 1980s, East Germany (GDR) displayed its domestic computers like the KC 85 and Robotron series in state parades as propaganda to demonstrate technological self-sufficiency, despite actually lagging significantly behind Western computing standards; this image of technological confidence became a striking symbol of a regime performing confidence it could no longer sustain, as the Berlin Wall fell just two years later in 1989.