Editing East Germany (section)

==== Western Europe ====
During the Cold War, especially during its early years, the East German government attempted to build closer diplomatic relations and trade links between [[Iceland]] and East Germany. By the 1950s, East Germany had become Iceland's fifth largest trading partner. East German influence in Iceland significantly declined in the 1970s and 1980s following a schism between the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the Icelandic Socialist Party over the [[Prague Spring]], along with free market economic reforms implemented by Iceland during the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ingimundarson |first=V. |date=6 September 2010 |title=Targeting the Periphery: The Role of Iceland in East German Foreign Policy, 1949–89 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713999929 |journal=[[Cold War History (journal)|Cold War History]] |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=113–140 |doi=10.1080/713999929 |s2cid=153852878 |access-date=13 February 2023}}</ref>