COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml • 1 year 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-square92 fedilinkarrow-up1130
arrow-up1130imageIn 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 • 1 year agomessage-square92 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareJucheBot1988@lemmygrad.mlhexbear17·1 year 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-21 year agoUS textbooks intentionally conflate the Berlin Wall with the "Iron Curtain". link
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mlhexbear10·1 year agoEvery time I see the term “Iron Curtain” I can’t help visualizing an actual metal curtain lol linkfedilink
minus-squareJucheBot1988@lemmygrad.mlhexbear5·1 year agoIt's either that, or the name of a really bad metal band from the 80s linkfedilink
minus-squareFlorn [they/them]hexbear4·1 year agoThey draw it as an actual graphic on a map of Europe lmao link
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