Many streets in the former East Germany were renamed in 1990.

前东德的许多街道在1990年重新命名了。

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But the textile machinery from the former East Germany looks as if it might even work.

但是前东德的纺织机械看起来似乎还能工作。

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SIEBEN LINDEN, a Hamlet in former East Germany, half-way between Hamburg and Berlin, looks deceptively normal.

Sieben Linden是前东德一个小村庄，坐落于汉堡和柏林之间，表面看来不过是个普通的村庄。

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President Obama says the honor is particularly meaningful for the first native of the former East Germany to lead a unified Germany.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

And in all the states of former East Germany the figure is less than 5%.

BBC: Census reveals German population lower than thought

Yet outside the former East Germany, nostalgia for the past plays no part in politics.

ECONOMIST: The world after 1989

In former East Germany, by contrast, nine out of ten women of working age had a full-time job.

ECONOMIST: A survey of women and work