Imagine swimming across the river to find a McDonald's, "Aw fuck, we gave up a better life in the GDR for this?" Freedom fries, indeed
Don't read the comments
Imagine swimming across the river to find a McDonald's, "Aw fuck, we gave up a better life in the GDR for this?" Freedom fries, indeed
Don't read the comments
it sounds exaggerated, the woman complains they were going to shoot her or disappear her if they catch her, the truth is moreso they were probably racing over to either help them or save them from drowning
they would have just shot her if they wanted to lol, this is just western propaganda
Good ol' Eco's ur-fascism strikes again: our enemies can't value human life enough not to just shoot escapees, but care enough not to shoot, say, anyone else.
This rationale sounds insane. I think it's a very real fear that she would be detained indefinitely or something if she got caught.
did you maybe consider why they're fleeing? could it be because they're criminals, or spies, or general malcontents? if she was an upstanding citizen with nothing to hide, she would be living her best life in GDR
Could it be that they had family in the West? Could it be that they had problems with the leadership of the GDR (socialists had that too, see Sahra Wagenknecht)? Obviously we should not demonize socialist experiments, but we should not completely whitewash them either. And obviously people did get shot at the border.
the only people who got shot at the border were propagandists trying to sneak into the country to peddle their capitalist smut
imagine where the usa would be today if they had abandoned capitalism in favor of communism when the berlin wall fell
but keep polishing reagan's knob and justifying the way they treated the GDR like outsiders