The next internet commie who tells you that food was plentiful in the 1980's in Communist East Germany, feel free to beat with a sack of cheap potatoes.
h/t Erin and Sarah Hoyt
If you're a car guy and wondered at how bad Communism is.
Trebant.
Communism made GERMANS make a car with body panels made from cotton and using a fucking 2-stroke motor AFTER WW2.
Never mind how mind boggling going through Checkpoint Charlie was.
On one side it was just like the rest of West Germany. On the other it was like two months after fucking VE day. I half expected to find spent brass laying in the alleys because they sure as shit hadn't fixed any of the damned bullet holes.
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Hey Angus;
ReplyDeleteI saw East Germany and East Berlin several times when I was stationed in Germany. I had commented that West Berlin was 24 hour party and East Berlin was dour and they had scaffolding like they were doing remodeling, but the scaffolding was dry rotted and there were bullet holes still in the buildings from when Marshall Zhukov Belorussian front took the city in 1945. In West Berlin the Germans were friendly the east Germans were afraid to talk to us for fear that one of their friends would rat them out since the Stasi had 1 out of 7 Osters finking on the rest of them. my favorite words when I was dealing with the east german cops was "Ich muste mit eine soviet officer mit zum sprechen". I drove the helmstedt autobahn in my mustang in 1987 for the first time and several more times, I still have a copy of my flag orders on my wall. People that say that East Germany had a lot of food..well compared to the rest of the warsaw pact, they did...but compared to the West...LOL, Right....people especially the young are ignorant and they think they know it all that once socialism is tried with the right people, it will be glorious...
The guy I linked to has one about when the wall came down. With Die Osten returning from The BDR and informing their friends and neighbors who hadn't left (yet) that the official government line about the average West German having it worse than they did was a bold face lie.
DeleteWhat dingus ever thought the East Germans or any of the working class in the Warsaw Pact nations had it better than the 'poor' in the USA?
ReplyDeleteSome people are just too friggin stupid to breed or breathe.
Thanks for the reminder - as with above, only idiots or the willfully ignorant think Communism was "Good" in any sense of the word.
ReplyDeleteI saw an article recently on how Communism is really reborn feudalism with aristocrats and the poor, no rule of law, no opportunities unless you are useful to the state (i.e. astronaut, hero, gymnast, etc), all cloaked in impossible slogans and words.
My HS and college German-language teachers had been to East Berlin/East Germany. They all said that it had its picture in the dictionary, under "dystopia." And Frederick Forsyth (the well-known writer) was a Reuters correspondent based in East Berlin during the 1960s. His memoir tells about how much fun life there wasn't, for the most part. (He had to split in a hurry after he found out to his horror that he was banging the mistress of an East German bigwig.)
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