Thirty-five years ago the Berlin Wall came down, paving the way to the wholesale colonisation, dispossession and deindustrialisation of the East German economy by West German capital
Some years ago I read the memoir of Victor Grossman about life in the DDR, and one thing that stuck with me was a comment about how farmers initially resisted collectivization but then came to appreciate it. They did not want to de-collectivize after the fall of the DDR, but were forced to. These kinds of things no one in the West wants to know or hear. Life in the DDR and the USSR is presented as one unending trail of tears about which nothing good can or should said. Thank you for correcting the record here.
I keep thinking about all those round-table debates in all socialist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall…about the way they should take… they were all neoliberalised.
Some years ago I read the memoir of Victor Grossman about life in the DDR, and one thing that stuck with me was a comment about how farmers initially resisted collectivization but then came to appreciate it. They did not want to de-collectivize after the fall of the DDR, but were forced to. These kinds of things no one in the West wants to know or hear. Life in the DDR and the USSR is presented as one unending trail of tears about which nothing good can or should said. Thank you for correcting the record here.
I keep thinking about all those round-table debates in all socialist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall…about the way they should take… they were all neoliberalised.
And people wonder why the AfD and BSW thrive in this fertile soil of the former East Germany — the fools …