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 ::::::::::::::: BTW on yours elsewhere ""unless you can find as source that explicitly states that in the context of the DDR, the phrase 'satellite state' is a neutral technical term,"", all that matters is that scholars of that topic use the term to describe the geopolitical nature of the degree to which a state is, or is not, sovereign. ""Socialist"" or ""Communist state"" is objectively an incomplete term in the case of East Germany and of its brethren. You don't get to censor scholarly terminology based on your personally erected gates of admission. Nor can you simply maintain that anything said during the Cold War is crap. 
 ::::::::::::::: The conversation here would go better if you didn't call editors assholes; remember, your self-professed awareness does not mean anything more than that. Awareness does not accord understanding or expertise.  ► "