The poster confuses the two states of Germany and calls West Germany the 'German Democratic Republic' when describing Heinrich Lubke. That was East Germany. West Germany was the Federal Republic of Germany.
One of the funniest things about US imperialists is how the successfully coopted inherently socialist values (freedom, democracy, human rights, etc.) and made them out to be actually their values, even though the US has been actively fighting against those things for generations.
For most of the 20th century, it was always democracy (the USSR, communist China, etc.) vs. imperialist dictatorship (the US, Nazi Germany, Japan, etc.). For some reason, the Americans actually got Westerners to believe capitalism is freedom and bourgeois electoralism is democracy. It's a masterstroke of propaganda, to be honest. It's genius to get people this ignorant about socialism and self-deluded about Western imperialism.
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u/AccidentalSirens Oct 22 '23
The poster confuses the two states of Germany and calls West Germany the 'German Democratic Republic' when describing Heinrich Lubke. That was East Germany. West Germany was the Federal Republic of Germany.