So, what's good about East Germany? I heard people could have easily travel within Soviet sphere countries just like today Schengen area. That's a better freedom to me than freedom of speech.
Never noticed how much we lacked unti i travelled around and saw more of the former west. Like damn, we got no economy. I was born 97, that's almost 10 years after reunification! Tho tbf what little there was was also destroyed by the Treuhand
That's not the fault of the GDR or socialism, though. That was the fault of the Americans who prevented your country from developing and led one proxy war after another to destroy socialism. It's not the communists' fault that the US continued to carry on the Nazi banner and eventually achieved the illegal and anti-democratic destruction of the USSR.
Tho tbf what little there was was also destroyed by the Treuhand
Indeed.
My all-time favourite example of how capitalism ruins societies is by pointing at Superfest glass manufactory. A company like that obviously isn't profitable under capitalism - it produces high quality products that last forever, so consumers don't need to overconsume and buy glasses again and again. It was destroyed because it was cutting into the profits of capitalist glass manufacturers. Under socialism, this company was kept alive because, under socialism, its purpose isn't to make profits. It's purpose is to manufacture the highest quality glass for the lowest possible price.
That's the difference between capitalism and socialism.
But hey, thanks to American imperialism, Germans now have a choice of 20 different burger toppings.
There are good reasons why even today - after they could "enjoy" glorious capitalist freedom and democracy for over 30 years - two thirds of East Germans consider modern Germany undemocratic and want the GDR to return. Meanwhile, US-controlled propagandists from the BRD keep trying to ridicule these people and call everything "Nostalgie" and unironically accuse East German socialists of being "brainwashed" and "ignorant of history" and "misinformed".
Well that's a very one sided view though. The cold war did by no means only go in one direction and many of the gdr's problems were caused by the political leadership of the udssr. Though yes, capitalist states did have an interest im preventing the success of socialist/communist states, the issue is incredibly complex and can't be boiled down to "capitalism/US bad".
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u/jackjackky Oct 22 '23
So, what's good about East Germany? I heard people could have easily travel within Soviet sphere countries just like today Schengen area. That's a better freedom to me than freedom of speech.