IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in landmark move

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CNN  —  Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship , in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow. Political as well as criminal prisoners in Germany during the Cold War era were forced to build flatpack furniture for IKEA . The revelations came to light in Swedish and German media reports more than a decade ago, prompting the company to

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