# Disclaimer: All this is second-hand experience from my family and some of those experiences must be considered localized because not even the GDR was a consistent monolith
Cons:
- Communism
- Was very much an occupied territory
- Suppression of faith and Right wing nationalism
- Holohoax curriculum
- Women were emancipated, had lots of freedoms and worked
- No freedom of movement except within Soviet territory and risky, curated freedom of thought and speech. Caveat, we had other tourist destinations that were nice and sunny and summer-y
- хаха, AK go BANG! BANG BANG! ... BANG!
Pro:
- "Red-ler" Jugend (FDJ, Junge- und Thälmannpioniere, poly-schools Polytechnische Schulen)
- The Soviets left
- Eventhough suppressed and not very favourable, at least Evangelism/Protestantism/Lutheranism was permitted and you were allowed to be Christians in private although you would go on a "Further Scrutiny" list
- Even though Communist, Socialist, Holohoax-ist in nature, put in place a strong sense of nationalism, national/land/territory/republic pride
- Strong social cohesion, everyone was required to do His or Her part, from the youngest children to the pensioners. In return, people were well taken care of
- Plentiful, affordable, family-friendly housing (yes, apartments, but oh well)
- low variety but high density of food (there actually were no "bread lines" or actual famine-style food shortages); Lots of soup kitchens; Bread stands did exist where you could get "communal bread" (low effort low price slop-ish bread) for cheap or upon showing a work stamp card (if you had worked that day you would be compensated with food, at least where my family lived it was like that)
- Expanding on the food thing, they actually made sure that there always *was* plenty of hearty food for the people because they knew if they lost the farmers (Bauern) and the food issue, the entire thing would go up in flames
Man i could go on.
If you didn't step out of line and at least just went along to get along, you could make it and you would have it good. My great-grandparents, may God rest their souls, raised five children and all of them made something of themselves.
"Es war nicht alles schlecht in der DDR"
I have nostalgia for something i never experienced, but since i was born in the early 90s we were still heavily "DDR-ized" (clothes, mindset, just general aesthetics and way of life i guess).
Screw West Germany and screw the Occupying Entity US-Israel who destroyed the GDR and annexed it to form what has existed since, a shambolic farce of a puppet state.
I want German de-unification and i want it NOW.
Cons:
- Communism
- Was very much an occupied territory
- Suppression of faith and Right wing nationalism
- Holohoax curriculum
- Women were emancipated, had lots of freedoms and worked
- No freedom of movement except within Soviet territory and risky, curated freedom of thought and speech. Caveat, we had other tourist destinations that were nice and sunny and summer-y
- хаха, AK go BANG! BANG BANG! ... BANG!
Pro:
- "Red-ler" Jugend (FDJ, Junge- und Thälmannpioniere, poly-schools Polytechnische Schulen)
- The Soviets left
- Eventhough suppressed and not very favourable, at least Evangelism/Protestantism/Lutheranism was permitted and you were allowed to be Christians in private although you would go on a "Further Scrutiny" list
- Even though Communist, Socialist, Holohoax-ist in nature, put in place a strong sense of nationalism, national/land/territory/republic pride
- Strong social cohesion, everyone was required to do His or Her part, from the youngest children to the pensioners. In return, people were well taken care of
- Plentiful, affordable, family-friendly housing (yes, apartments, but oh well)
- low variety but high density of food (there actually were no "bread lines" or actual famine-style food shortages); Lots of soup kitchens; Bread stands did exist where you could get "communal bread" (low effort low price slop-ish bread) for cheap or upon showing a work stamp card (if you had worked that day you would be compensated with food, at least where my family lived it was like that)
- Expanding on the food thing, they actually made sure that there always *was* plenty of hearty food for the people because they knew if they lost the farmers (Bauern) and the food issue, the entire thing would go up in flames
Man i could go on.
If you didn't step out of line and at least just went along to get along, you could make it and you would have it good. My great-grandparents, may God rest their souls, raised five children and all of them made something of themselves.
"Es war nicht alles schlecht in der DDR"
I have nostalgia for something i never experienced, but since i was born in the early 90s we were still heavily "DDR-ized" (clothes, mindset, just general aesthetics and way of life i guess).
Screw West Germany and screw the Occupying Entity US-Israel who destroyed the GDR and annexed it to form what has existed since, a shambolic farce of a puppet state.
I want German de-unification and i want it NOW.
As if Western Germany hasn't been communist for 30+ years
[Mhmm, sure, the globalist organization that forcibly moved tens of millions of people to resettle them among racial strangers totally didn’t have anti-white propaganda.](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/chinese-soviet-propaganda-posters/) Definitely believe that.