East Germany

Let’s talk about the German Democratic Republic.

I find it incredibile how the western media continually tries to portray the GDR as an evil, tyranical state. It was much better than Western Germany; the facts are there, but stilil people refuse to accept the GDR’s supperiority. Here’s a graph to show working conditions in the GDR as opposed to Western Germany (reffered to as WG from now on):

WG used all sorts of tricks to make GDR feel jealous of the north. They built gigantic shopping centers on the border advertise their consumer products. They advertised the “benefits” of living in WG through the television (GDR citizens could view both East and Western television stations). Furthermore, the GDR was under intense pressure from capitalist countries. With a hostile country surrouding it, it was forced to build a wall.

(yes, the picture was drawn by me).

There was an unsupported rebellion in the town of Leipzig in 1989. The rebels where mostly neo-fascist groups and protestant Christians. Gorbachev could have easily put an end to it, but, being the idiot that he was, decided not to pay attention to it and to keep fucking with the Russian economy via perestroika.

(Picture edited by me)

Eventually, the rebels gathered enough power to overthrow the government. East Germany became capitalist again. Millions of people lost their jobs, many lost their homes and even more were forced to work in the same job for much lower wages (those imposssed by their capitalist oppressors).

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