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Definition Ostpolitik in British English

Ostpolitik noun

noun
1

the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic beginning in 1969

Example

Ostpolitik took almost two decades to soften up East Germany to the point of collapse.

Definition Ostpolitik in British English