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mityenka · 2 years ago

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liberals when someone from west germany has a nuanced view of the gdr: how dare you romanticize this brutal dictatorship!! go listen to someone from east germany who actually lived through this horrible authoritarian regime!!!

liberals when two thirds of east germans actually feel nostalgic towards the gdr and one fourth of east germans feel like their life got worse after the fall of the berlin wall: those backwards east germans are still brainwashed into authoritarianism, we should just rebuild the wall if they like it so much, they were simply not made for democratic participation

#pol #sorry for formatting this like a shitpost from 2012 #obligatory disclaimer i do not think the gdr was a socialist utopia blah blah #but i recently read an article about how academic discussion about the gdr is still primary held from a west german perspective and #perspectives from east germans can only gain traction if they support the leading west german view otherwise they get #dismissed as brainwashed while west germans who view the gdr with nuance get written of for not having #lived experience #and i think we should be able to discuss the progress made in the gdr ie re: womens rights and combatting homelessness without being #accused of turning a blind eye to its flaws if we don't stress how absolutely horrible terrible bad it was there and how lucky we are #that we live in a free democratic good enlightened country nowadays every 2 seconds #anyways shout out to that guy who got asked if he wouldn't criticize the gdr for not allowing its citizens to travel wherever they wanted #and responded with if you're poor in germany nowadays you also can't travel wherever you want so what's the difference

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