#east german

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Trabant 601 Tramp, 1978. A buggy version of the Communist-era East German "Trabi" based on the military-spec Kübel available to civilian customers. Many were exported to Greece. Like other 601 models it was powered by a 594cc 2-cylinder 2 stroke engine

[henk-heijmans]

Berlin, East German, 1974s - by Ute Mahler (1949), German

[plus-low-overthrow]

Jon Petersen - Love to Love You Baby (Europa)

1976.

[301-302]

Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone | Paul Verhoeven | 1950)

[ijzelen-ijzel]

Germany has become my anamnesis, Michi Nijen

[wezg]

Review: The Assault On Truth - Boris Johnson and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism - by Peter Oborne

I think everyone that has ever heard of Boris Johnson associates him with lies. Oborne, who is an established veteran political journalist, in this relatively brief text, exposes the extent of the former Conservative Prime Minister’s almost total aversion to the truth. He reckons Johnson has told over thousands of lies and although the scope of the book is not to document every single lie and…

[revindicatedbyhistory]

enough discussions about whether israel has a right to exist (it doesn´t). let´s now discuss: does germany have a right to exist? the answer also is no

[hatfejusarkany]

Barkas B1000 fire truck and Triumph convertible at a Colchester site, 2019

[butchstalinist]

Reminder that the fall of the Berlin Wall was a tragedy for humankind, and that Marxist-Leninist LGBT+ Liberation will always be superior to rainbow capitalism. ☭ 🏳️‍🌈 ☭ 🏳️‍⚧️ ☭

[soviet-amateurs]

75 years ago, on October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was founded, with Wilhelm Pieck as its first president and Otto Grotewohl as its first prime minister.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Melkus RS 1000, 1969. An East German sports car that was powered by a tuned, mid-mounted Wartburg 3-cylinder 2-stroke 992cc  engine. In total 101 cars were made with production ending in 1979. In 2006 15 replicas were made to celebrate the car's 50th anniversary but an attempt to make a successor Melkus RS 2000 failed when the company was registered as insolvent.

[octoberbrunette]

Source / ethanhunt-deactivated20230911

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[probablyasocialecologist]

One man’s drudgery was another man’s stability. With some justification, Erich Honecker looked with pride at the changes in living standards that had been achieved under his leadership. Despite continuous problems with supplies and being behind technological standards in the West, the GDR felt like a stable country with comparatively high living standards. By design, there was full employment and the subsidized rents, food, cultural offerings and childcare meant that there were few existential concerns. At a time when West Germany was grappling with around 8 per cent unemployment and job security was a worry to many of those who did have work, East German families never really had to fear a sudden loss of income or not being able to pay the rent. By 1987, over half of all households had a car and all had at least one washing machine, fridge and TV. Products that were difficult to get hold of through regular routes were often obtained with the help of Western relatives who ordered them directly through Genex catalogues or provided the currency for a trip to the Intershop. Friends and family in the right places could also help. All in all, the economic shortcomings of the GDR in the mid-1980s, while reaching crisis level behind the scenes, appeared to many East Germans as nuisances rather than existential threats to their way of life. This lack of existential concerns coupled with a solid life–work balance meant that East Germans had a fair amount of money and time on their hands without having to worry too much about having to make the most of it. As a result, they spent a lot more time socializing and enjoying leisure pursuits. Clubhouses, allotment gardens, restaurants, communal barbecue pits and party rooms in apartment blocks were popular retreats where friends, colleagues and neighbours would meet to relax. Accordingly, alcohol consumption in the GDR skyrocketed. By 1988, the average East German drank 142 litres of beer a year and 16.1 litres of hard liquor, twice as much as their West German neighbours and enough to make VEB Nordbrand the largest Schnapps producer in Europe. The American academic Thomas Kochan has argued that this is not due to a need to escape the dreary realities of the GDR, as has often been claimed, but rather to the ‘existential carefreeness’ experienced by ‘a low-competition collective society’. Most East Germans drank not to forget their worries but rather because they had too little to worry about.

Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

[i-am-aprl]

It quiz time 😎

Let's play a game 😁

[nigesakis]

If you wanna spread awareness in Germany, you can print and paste this flyer! Please reblog/share/retweet on Twitter or Instagram; here's the PDF! translation below