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

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  • Adrian_Zenz [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    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

    • Hungover [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • Adrian_Zenz [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        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