Found at the DDR museum in Berlin. Apparently making childrens play with each other is communist propaganda.

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  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    I'm genuinely pretty sure the DDR Museum in Berlin is run by socialists who want you to notice this, I swear to god that entire fucking place makes 0 sense otherwise. All the stations are like this, they're describing something good that nominally west germany did or still does but then describe it as bad because the communists did it, it ends with you looking at ginormous flat which it tells you cost the equivalent of 50€ per month or something and that nobody but the the richest 5% of the country could afford in Berlin today, before letting you out via the gift store full of DDR nostalgia to buy. Even all the most unpolitical, co-worker-belief-system people I've went there with caught on to it.

    • normal_user [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 hours ago

      Yes, i think there is a panel where it tells you that some worker for a 3 room apartment pays 10% of their salary. Then they show you a standard 3 room apartment and while going through it I was so surprised because I would never be able to afford anything even close to it.

      But all the museum is about how people where oppressed and poor !?

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        3 hours ago

        I think the most egregious one to me was the stasi listening post that said they listened in to every 3rd person or something along those lines. this was post snowden, so by objective metrics that seemed a lot better than the allied NSA listening in to 100% of everything lol

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            1 hour ago

            Stasi emplyed less people per capita than western German secret service lol

            Mistake

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        4 hours ago

        "This is because the evil communist government hated the free market and smol bean landlords janet-wink"

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          3 hours ago

          IIRC their big bad scary point, and admittedly that works on most germans, is that you have a Tram station right outside since nobody could afford or get cars

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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        4 hours ago

        smuglord: “Well, the people who MATTERED were oppressed and poor! How were they supposed to feel good about themselves if even the weak were allowed to live?”