Ostalgie
Ostalgie is the coinage of Ost (East) and the German word for nostalgia, a highly contagious "it wasn't all that bad" feeling about a system and culture that actually was; communist East Germany. Luckily, Ostalgie Überkitsch artifacts are now popping up regularly at places like Berlin's German Historical Museum bookshop, a clear sign that the worst of the epidemic is over. After all, everything that lands in a museum is dead.
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