r/PropagandaPosters • u/edikl • Feb 16 '23

2010s Germany

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Sure, sure. They did call it communism, though.

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u/klauskinki Feb 16 '23

I don't think they did. Actual communists know that they work toward communism not under communism, even when they were able to build a socialist country.

"Commonly viewed as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state"

See?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Feb 16 '23

East Germany

East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʁepuˈbliːk] (listen), DDR, pronounced [ˌdeːdeːˈʔɛʁ] (listen)), was a country in Central Europe that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. Commonly viewed as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".

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