Deutsche Demokratische Republik

>>3318899
They lied? Marxist-leninism and socialism have a shaky foundation to begin with and there is no reason why an authoritarian state should actually give a shit about any of it beyond propaganda and appearances.

>>3318899
>what went wrong?
Pretty much everything from the very beginning.
>inb4 the tankie retard brigade joins the thread and starts talking about how the Berlin Wall was to "keep out fascism" and the /pol/tards start saying it was a bastion of German conservativism and Prussian values or whatever the fuck those absolute dipshits believe

>>3318962
>Pretty much everything from the very beginning.
Can I please get a quick rundown?

>>3318899
C*mmunism.

>>3318986
>Soviets set up their own Germany because they wanted to maintain a larger sphere in Central Europe in the face of the West establishing the Bundesrepublik
>Soviets use it as a containment-state for German diaspora being deported from Eastern Europe
>people immediately start fleeing to the west whenever and wherever possible
>people launch a failed revolution in the early 50's because of repression and the fact that the country had been arbitrarily devided
>Berlin Wall gets built in the early 60's because of heightened tensions between the geopolitical blocs and because too many people were using the city's unique situation to escape
>DDR then goes on to maintain a dystopia where the Stasi use invasive surveillance and gaslightig techniques to abuse possible dissenters until the leadership realizes they can't hold on to power much longer in the face of the collapse of the USSR and abdicate authority to West Germany to prevent them from going out the same way Mussolini and Gaddafi did
Most of the Stasi and party elite completely got away with their actions and a few are even in influential positions in Germany today, and the successor to the country's ruling party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei) was a legitimate party operating in Germany until 2007.

>>3318899
DDR was literally the only good Germany in the entire history

>>3318899
>Communism

>>3319238
Stfu. DDR was fucking awful for people living there.
Everytime you need to build a wall to keep the people in, theres something entirely wrong.
also
>Bananas

>>3319259
>DDR was fucking awful for people living there.
Exactly. The only good Germany is the one that was awful for G*rmans

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>>3318899
It was just a Russian puppet. As Russian power faded it was gone.

>>3318899

It was pretty cool actually. Nobody was hungry, n bums, no crime, nobody felt worthless.

But hey, at least I can chose between 5 different brands of bananas now heh.

>>3319838

>Nobody was hungry, n bums, no crime, nobody felt worthless.

<citation needed>

Taking bums and forcing them to dig holes doesn't count.

>>3319853

>Taking bums and forcing them to dig holes doesn't count.

Ye man, they had literal concentration camps n shiieet

>>3319259
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie

>>3319259
LE TRABANT STASI NO BANANAS XDDD