Why the FUCK did the GDR fail?

Commie incompetence as usual. One misspoken word caused GDR to open up the border with DRG and that ended it.

I'd also like to know if there was any serious opposition to reunification.

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because communism doesnt work you inbred burger

>>133806078
Because fuck you that's why. Communism is faggotry. Prove me wrong- oh wait, you can't.

When Korea unifies it will be quite similar to Germany unifying. Even a similar population

>>133806251
Neck yourself faggot

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>>133806078
Thanks, though. Waxing Nostalgic for the Cold War now. You got a bunch of us old Cold Warriors at Chess Board remembering the Good Old Days.

I miss my station at the Latvia SSR desk.

One of my favorite mini-series about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmdviatN_0

>>133806078
1 Communism always fails
2 because it was a meme state with no real reason to exist, so not even nationalists would back it
3 gee, it couldn't be a thing made by an invading force that was the only thing holding it together, could it?

>>133806243
Fuck off leaf. Don't you have a bull to go fluff?

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>>133806859
>Stop telling me the reason why it failed!

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>>133806078
Not even the Germans can make it work.
That should tell you something.

>>133806078
(((Capitalist))) subversion. Remember east Germany hated kikes.

>>133806825
All the high tech science shit that the SU used came all from east germany. Without them the union would've been fallen decades earlier.

Socialism fails in white countries too.

>>133807414
GDR did do a hell of a job with optics.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzzQCTOlhNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QGYZoxlY28

>>133807325
Fucking soviet union imported thousands of Vietnamese and best korea “guest workers“ and of course they never leaved

>>133806825
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbZXFjIzzzc

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/30/struggling-romanians-yearn-for-communism/

>>133807325
One of my great Aunts still has one of those East German cars. For a car that is famous for failing, hers has lasted just fine all these years. Talk about a broken clock being right twice a day

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>>133807720
why the fuck would they.
could you imagine their luck?

>>133807390
Explain.

communism is a theory based on little to no government, with everybody doing the right thing. but nobody wants to always do the right thing, and the GDR had a rather large government.

>>133807833
>"I'll take, 'What is bullshit on paper,' for $200, Alex."

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>>133806078

Why did the reich fail? I can't go a day without thinking how much better this world would be had it not. I have no intention of killing myself, but if I had a chance to go back and fight for Germany I would do it without hesitation. Can anyone alleviate these feels?

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>>133808092
The USSR's last leader was a capitalist sellout and you know it

http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv6n1/gorbach.htm

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The DDR is quite fascinating to me. Both in a military sense and a cultural one. Probably the closest that a Socialist state has come to succeeding (Though it still failed, as everyone Socialist nation has). That's despite the little help they had from the USSR after WW2 and despite the inherent flaws that come with a centrally planned economy. There were reforms being put in place by the 1980s that could have saved the DDR, but they came too late and by that point many people just wanted to be free of it entirely. The reputation of the Berlin Wall, Grenztruppen, and Stasi didn't help matters either.

Still, for what was supposed to be a bastard state of the USSR that was supposed to punish the Germans and act as a buffer zone, they could have done a lot worse. Reunification was probably the best option but I know a lot of Easterners disliked how they were pretty much just annexed into West Germany.
The DDR also understood the point of taking in migrants: To help them and educate them, then send them back to their original nation so they can improve it and become a trading partner, boosting both nations' economies.

Also one of my favorite national anthems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UToIGSR7XDc

>>133807833
>zero homelessness
ah yes, when you murder all the homeless, there are no more homeless
>higher calorie consumption than USA
How? They had famines and poor crop yields for years because of Stalin's stupid croney ruining their agriculture.
>eliminate poverty
Yeah standing in bread lines sounds like real prosperity.
>be 25 years away from reaching parity with the western world
IE perpetually 25 years behind the western world

>>133808643
>Though it still failed, as everyone Socialist nation has
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF_ntTLk0dc

>>133809035
>ah yes, when you murder all the homeless, there are no more homeless
Whats the problem?

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>>133809035
>ah yes, when you murder all the homeless, there are no more homeless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQc5f2JYP-A
>How? They had famines and poor crop yields for years because of Stalin's stupid croney ruining their agriculture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3WH79my90s
>Yeah standing in bread lines sounds like real prosperity.
Socialism=waiting in line for good bread
Capitalism=instant access to shit bread
>IE perpetually 25 years behind the western world
see pic

>>133809464
t. Lysenkoist

Because the CIA infitrated the FDJ and STASI

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>>133809464
Are you really making an excuse for bread lines?

>>133806078
see that compass in the symbol?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_LrxEyTrrw

>>133807833
I love the lack of acknowledgement of the 20 year era of stagnation and how shit collapsed once the government was forced to not lie to its people for once about their real situation.

>>133811481
escape the matrix

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>>133806757
The feels

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>>133813520
Shit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNju8IjExn4

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>>133807833