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Two regions of this country were sardonically referred to as the “valley of the clueless” because they were outside of the signal (10[1])range of ARD TV broadcasts. Concerts by the Beatles (10[1])in a [emphasize] neighboring country precipitated a 1965 youth-led “Beat Revolt” against authorities in this country. A walking figure wearing a straw hat known as the “little light man” first appeared on this country’s pedestrian signals. (10[1])People in this country waited up to 10 years to acquire a loudly-backfiring plastic car called the Trabant. (10[1])A famous piece of graffiti showed a leader of this country, Erich Honecker, sharing a fraternal kiss with Leonid Brezhnev. For 10 points, ostalgie romanticizes the culture of what former Communist country, whose citizens were heavily surveilled by the Stasi? ■END■

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