Sugar beet's communist history

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I just got back from three days in Germany.

I was in the north, near to Hannover, visiting some of the country's most fertile agricultural land.

I thought I was just going to learn about sugar beet - grown to perfection in the area - but I was also treated to a fascinating subplot.

'This land', I was told as a hand swept around a beet field and pointed into the distance, 'used to be divided right down the middle with the democratic capitalists in west and the communists in the east. But now we are united'.   

He was, of course, talking about the division of the country after the Second World War.

Today all that signifies the old border, which dissolved precisely 20 years ago, is a signpost on the roadside, but the memories of division are still strong for all Germans.

It was tough in the countryside.

Families were torn apart, farms were split in half, businesses were destroyed and lives were sacrificed in a fight to end the division which only concluded in 1989.

On Tuesday this week, at the same time Barrack Obama, Gordon Brown and other dignitaries spoke about the defeat of communism and freedom of the Eastern Bloc to huge crowds in Berlin, we were given a personal account.

OK, we weren't in Berlin. Instead we gathered in a warm conference room on the ground floor of our hotel. But the sentiment was the same and the significance no less impressive.

Our speaker was Dr Hermann Strube, head of the Strube seed company that has research facilities on both sides of the old border.

The fall of communism saved businesses like his, he said.

"Twenty years ago today we were allowed to cross the border for the first time - it was an incredible moment.

"We would not be here without the fall of the Berlin Wall so this is a very special day for us," he said.  

Strube is now one of the world's foremost sugar beet experts.

Learn more about the company and its latest sugar beet developments in the paper and online over the coming weeks.

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