Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism
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I addressed with the victims of Communism who can no longer speak for themselves.
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Unless, of course, they are from Central Asian villages. Then they are all welcome!
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I doubt it. You have posted an article which contains no link to the poll.
I cannot find what percentage of those polled actually LIVED in the GDR, or if millennials and gen z are skewing the poll.
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Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism
Homesick for a Dictatorship: Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism
Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an "illegitimate state." In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.
www.spiegel.de
In Birger's opinion, there is no fundamental difference between dictatorship and freedom. "The people who live on the poverty line today also lack the freedom to travel."
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As an apologist for the former East German dictatorship, the young Mecklenburg native shares a majority view of people from eastern Germany. Today, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 57 percent, or an absolute majority, of eastern Germans defend the former East Germany. "The GDR had more good sides than bad sides. There were some problems, but life was good there," say 49 percent of those polled. Eight percent of eastern Germans flatly oppose all criticism of their former home and agree with the statement: "The GDR had, for the most part, good sides. Life there was happier and better than in reunified Germany today."
These poll results, released last Friday in Berlin, reveal that glorification of the former East Germany has reached the center of society. Today, it is no longer merely the eternally nostalgic who mourn the loss of the GDR. "A new form of Ostalgie (nostalgia for the former GDR) has taken shape," says historian Stefan Wolle. "The yearning for the ideal world of the dictatorship goes well beyond former government officials." Even young people who had almost no experiences with the GDR are idealizing it today. "The value of their own history is at stake," says Wolle.
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What portion of these polled were millenials or Gen Z?
Where is the link to the poll?
I only believe sources that give us the data, the evidence. This one does not.
Dante
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Eastern Germans Feel Life Was Better Under Communism
A poll shows a majority of eastern Germans defend their former dictatorship in East Germany. This mindset has dangerous implications.
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Dante
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Communist nostalgia - Wikipedia
Communist nostalgia, also called communism nostalgia or socialist nostalgia, is the nostalgia in various post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia for the prior communist states.[1][2][3]
Examples of such nostalgia can be observed in East Germany, Poland, the former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania,[4][5][6][7] the Czech Republic, Albania, and Slovakia.[8] Businesses have commercialized and commodified communist nostalgia in the form of communist chic and other commodities and products reminiscent of the former era.[8]
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. . . and yet? You do not post the poll.
Even in the Pew Research. . I cannot find a break down of the demographics, which generally, is ALWAYS included. It is a must in social science research.
Where is it?
Without it? We can't say much about the data TBH.
(Well. . . the establishment CAN make articles and comments in the propaganda for the intellectually dull. No surprise you gravitate to it.
)
www.pewresearch.org
Even in the Pew Research. . I cannot find a break down of the demographics, which generally, is ALWAYS included. It is a must in social science research.
Where is it?
Without it? We can't say much about the data TBH.
(Well. . . the establishment CAN make articles and comments in the propaganda for the intellectually dull. No surprise you gravitate to it.
)
How the attitudes of West and East Germans compare, 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall
Despite broadly positive sentiments among Germans about the changes of the past 30 years, views differ in some notable ways in the former West and East.
www.pewresearch.org
Dante
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Thirty years ago, a wave of optimism swept across Europe as walls and regimes fell, and long-oppressed publics embraced open societies, open markets and a more united Europe. Three decades later, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that few people in the former Eastern Bloc regret the monumental changes of 1989-1991. Yet, neither are they entirely content with their current political or economic circumstances. Indeed, like their Western European counterparts, substantial shares of Central and Eastern European citizens worry about the future on issues like inequality and the functioning of their political systems.. . . and yet? You do not post the poll.
Even in the Pew Research. . I cannot find a break down of the demographics, which generally, is ALWAYS included. It is a must in social science research.
Where is it?
Without it? We can't say much about the data TBH.
(Well. . . the establishment CAN make articles and comments in the propaganda for the intellectually dull. No surprise you gravitate to it.
How the attitudes of West and East Germans compare, 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall
Despite broadly positive sentiments among Germans about the changes of the past 30 years, views differ in some notable ways in the former West and East.
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These questions about democracy and a market economy were first asked in 1991, and then again in 2009.
Public Opinion in Europe 30 Years After the Fall of Communism | Pew Research Center
Thirty years ago, a wave of optimism swept across Europe as walls and regimes fell, and long-oppressed publics embraced open societies, open markets and a more united Europe. Three decades later, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that few people in the former Eastern Bloc regret the...
www.pewresearch.org
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