RIP to the German Democratic Republic

  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth
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    29 days ago

    Lol I’m not bullshitting. Poverty. Restrictions on freedom of expression that make Germany’s current problems in that department look like nothing. Didn’t even have enough access to toilet paper at times, and we’re not talking about a pandemic or anything like that.

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        28 days ago

        Ya know, there’s a saying in Russia: “the younger is the blogger, the harsher was their life in USSR”, I think the same may go for DDR as well

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          28 days ago

          The most aggressively anti-communist people from formerly socialist countries whom I know or am familiar with were all born in the 1990s.

          • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.ml
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            28 days ago

            boris borisov, b. 1950: i loved the ussr it was amazing

            vladimir vladimirov, b. 1987: i hate the ussr it was the worst time in my life