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World Service,28 Jul 2009,18 mins

East German echoes

Business Daily

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Business Daily visits East Germany and an oil refinery which has seen extraordinary and sometimes painful change since Soviet days. Is capitalism still popular - even in a crushing recession? Lesley Curwen asks the workers of tomorrow whether they want to stay in the east where wages are still lower, or go west?

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