COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml • 10 months agoIn DDR everyone was alloted an apartment to live in, but it was not a good place to live in but Ukraine is good 👍imagemessage-square96 fedilinkarrow-up1129
arrow-up1129imageIn DDR everyone was alloted an apartment to live in, but it was not a good place to live in but Ukraine is good 👍COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml • 10 months agomessage-square96 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareGarbageShoot [he/him]hexbear39·10 months agoThe wall was only in Berlin, not the whole country like this guy suggests link
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mlhexbear20·10 months agoYeah, reading it made me believe that the wall split the entirety of Germany in half. linkfedilink
minus-squareJucheBot1988@lemmygrad.mlhexbear17·10 months agoI was in high school before I realized (my father, an historian, told me) that the wall was only in Berlin. Every textbook I'd read up until that point implied it was all across Germany. linkfedilink
minus-squareFlorn [they/them]hexbear14·edit-210 months agoUS textbooks intentionally conflate the Berlin Wall with the "Iron Curtain". link
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mlhexbear10·10 months agoEvery time I see the term “Iron Curtain” I can’t help visualizing an actual metal curtain lol linkfedilink
minus-squareJucheBot1988@lemmygrad.mlhexbear5·10 months agoIt's either that, or the name of a really bad metal band from the 80s linkfedilink
minus-squareFlorn [they/them]hexbear4·10 months agoThey draw it as an actual graphic on a map of Europe lmao link
The wall was only in Berlin, not the whole country like this guy suggests
Yeah, reading it made me believe that the wall split the entirety of Germany in half.
I was in high school before I realized (my father, an historian, told me) that the wall was only in Berlin. Every textbook I'd read up until that point implied it was all across Germany.
US textbooks intentionally conflate the Berlin Wall with the "Iron Curtain".
Every time I see the term “Iron Curtain” I can’t help visualizing an actual metal curtain lol
It's either that, or the name of a really bad metal band from the 80s
They draw it as an actual graphic on a map of Europe lmao
bbbut muh wall