The sarcastic expression referred to the belief that Western broadcasts were more critical and informative than the government-sanctioned Eastern equivalents – although people living in the "valley" were still able to keep themselves informed via Western radio.
The term has been used unkindly by some media and historians to refer to the Dresden area and other eastern cities like Chemnitz due to the stronger presence of far-right groups like Pegida and voting patterns in support of the AfD there.
Using the term to tar all easterners as ignorant seems pretty unfair in our view - and not faithful to its light-hearted origins.
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