Two regions of this country were sardonically referred to as the “valley of the clueless” because they were outside of the signal range of ARD TV broadcasts. Concerts by the Beatles 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. People in this country waited up to 10 years to acquire a loudly-backfiring plastic car called the Trabant. 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■
ANSWER: East Germany [or GDR or German Democratic Republic; or DDR or Deutsche Demokratische Republik; prompt on Germany or Deutschland]
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