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	Sie definierte sich qua Geschichtsbild als die bessere Hälfte des Landes, als "Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat" und antifaschistisch und war doch die Hälfte, in der die Menschen ganz real schlechter lebten und zwar Tag für Tag. [G]	The GDR defined itself by way of its historical image as the better half of Germany, as the 'Worker and Farmer State' and as anti-fascist, and yet it was the half in which people quite actually lived worse, day for day.
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.