During the 1970s, East Germany faced a coffee shortage and thus decided to make Vietnam their supplier. They put in a substantial amount of money, estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars, to Vietnam in return for half of their coffee harvests for two decades. However, by the time the first harvest was due in 1990, East Germany had already ceased to exist.

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During the 1970s, East Germany faced a coffee shortage and thus decided to make Vietnam their supplier. They put in a substantial amount of money, estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars, to Vietnam in return for half of their coffee harvests for two decades. However, by the time the first harvest was due in 1990, East Germany had already ceased to exist.