Titolo 'It is a Shame We Are Not Neighbours': GDR Tourist Cruises to Cuba, 1961–89 Periodico Journal of contemporary history Anno: 2020 - Volume: 55 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 411 - Pagina finale: 434
The German Democratic Republic (GDR) is typically portrayed as only allowing its citizens to travel within the ‘Eastern bloc’. It has passed largely unremarked upon that from 1961 to 1989, however, tens of thousands of GDR citizens travelled to Cuba, with thousands of these journeys taking place on trade union-owned cruise ships