▲ 50 ▼ What are your thoughts on the German Democratic Republic as a country. (europe.pub) submitted 2 weeks ago by Starimi@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments RIP to the German Democratic Republic
[–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children) Also what fascism? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago Liberal education blames communism for not “educating” East Germans in the practices of democracy and insinuates they instinctively seek out strongman populist leaders because its familiar to them. Nowadays a pinch of orientalism is added and states that since unlike the West where “Americans taught Germans Democracy” the East under evvul ruzzians never managed to ingratiate “democratic values” in their society. permalink fedilink source parent [–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children) They're saying that AfD support in the East today means the DDR was fascist. Obviously this is an absurd suggestion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago Exactly permalink fedilink source parent [–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth -3 points 2 weeks ago Uh, that's quite the misrepresentation of what I wrote. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago Liberal education blames communism for not “educating” East Germans in the practices of democracy and insinuates they instinctively seek out strongman populist leaders because its familiar to them. Nowadays a pinch of orientalism is added and states that since unlike the West where “Americans taught Germans Democracy” the East under evvul ruzzians never managed to ingratiate “democratic values” in their society. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children) They're saying that AfD support in the East today means the DDR was fascist. Obviously this is an absurd suggestion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago Exactly permalink fedilink source parent [–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth -3 points 2 weeks ago Uh, that's quite the misrepresentation of what I wrote. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth -3 points 2 weeks ago Uh, that's quite the misrepresentation of what I wrote. permalink fedilink source parent