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The pig played a fundamental role in the GDR's attempts to create a modern industrial food system, albeit one based on communist principles of large-scale collective farming. But the small nation paid a high price for its pig prowess: from manure pollution to animal disease and rolling food shortages--the reliance on industrial pork, much of which was directly destined for export, foreshadowed the country's ultimate environmental and political collapse in 1989.
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