A bit of East Germany still exists


	A bit of East Germany still exists

n2sooners

5-17-2007 8:46 PM

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germany, cuba, east germany

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5-18-2007 2:54 AM

Viiltaja

Monkeys draw alot of imaginary lines on the dirt...

5-19-2007 9:16 PM

papabenny

Mike Moore could have gone there w/o violating the travel ban. haha

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/804960b5-cfca-4530-ab38-e57d7d4b79bd/A70514C4-DA59-4960-95D8-D2755B3ABE21/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/17/east-germany-in-the-caribbean/" href="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/17/east-germany-in-the-caribbean/" style="font-size: 11px;">googlesightseeing.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/17/east-germany-in-the-caribbean/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/googlesightseeing.com/img/35126242-A4F0-4876-A662-7A79E432DA5A" alt="eastgermany.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/17/east-germany-in-the-caribbean/"><P>This is the small island formerly known as <A href="http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1315&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=22.028524,-81.343889&z=14">Cayo Blanco de Sur</A>, Cuba. The island is around 15 km long, about 500 metres wide, and is uninhabited save for the indigenous birds and iguanas.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/17/east-germany-in-the-caribbean/"><P>In 1972 while on a state visit to East Berlin, Fidel Castro gifted this island<SUP id="fnref:1"><A rel="footnote" href="#fn:1">1</A></SUP> to the former socialist country of East Germany, and renamed it <EM>Cayo Ernesto Thaelmann</EM>, after the leader of the German Communist Party, Ernst Thälmann.<SUP id="fnref:2"><A rel="footnote" href="#fn:2">2</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/05/17/east-germany-in-the-caribbean/"><P>Of course, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Democratic_Republic">East Germany</A> ceased to exist in 1990 when the (East) German Democratic Republic was absorbed by the Federal Republic of (West) Germany. 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