• oats@piefed.zip
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      4 months ago

      Federal Republic of Germany, as opposed to the German Democratic Republic.

      West and east

        • алсааас [she/her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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          De facto it was an annexation of it’s whole economy by western companies. There is a reason people in the East say “Tag der Treuhand” (“Day of the Treuhand”) instead of “Tag der Deutschen Einheit” (“Day of German Unity”)

          • Ey ich frag doch nur@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            I was born in GDR and I’ve never heard that before. The vast majority of people wanted to join the capitalistic west. It was a peaceful revolution with huge demonstrations. They wanted bananas an the currency.

            Imo the biggest mistake of the dictatorial party was closing the borders to the west. They were taking people’s freedom, way too much. Of course people were pissed

            Edit also lol the economy of GDR was a fucking joke.