Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism

[Dante]

30 years after fall of Berlin Wall, East Germans feel inferior​

As Germany gears up for a year of celebrations to mark the demise of the Wall, the Cold War's most potent symbol, in November 1989 and German reunification a year later, the report's findings help explain a surge in support for the far-right among eastern voters.

 

[MisterBeale]

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.

...

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

So yoar own link, that you have now decided to post, dewunks yoar own narrative. Interesting.

 

[Dante]

So yoar own link, that you have now decided to post, dewunks yoar own narrative. Interesting.

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Nope.

you're just stuck on stupid -- again

 

[Dante]

Interesting reality. Being interested in what other people think and believe. I'm not surprised. A one size fits all never really works or satisfies everybody.

Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism - 2009

Homesick for a DictatorshipMajority 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.

VonJulia Bonstein
03.07.2009, 19.18 Uhr

Why this

Interesting reality. Being interested in what other people think and believe. I'm not surprised. A one size fits all never really works or satisfies everybody.​

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Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism - 2009​

triggered a few people so badly is puzzling.

 

[westwall]

Interesting reality. Being interested in what other people think and believe. I'm not surprised. A one size fits all never really works or satisfies everybody.

Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism - 2009

Homesick for a DictatorshipMajority 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.

VonJulia Bonstein
03.07.2009, 19.18 Uhr

How about asking them NOW you dishonest hack.

 

[westwall]

Nope.

you're just stuck on stupid -- again

Screeches the buffoon who posts up a 15 year old article as support for a moronic opinion.

 

[Zavulon]

Unless, of course, they are from Central Asian villages. Then they are all welcome!

I'm from Central Asian little town (from Aral's region of Kazakhstan). And I'm was welcomed. Of course, I'm ethnic Russian (my mom was Ukrainian and my dad was a Jew), but even the most stupid and non-Russificated Mambets are more Russian than most of Europeans and Americans.

 

[Litwin]

Interesting reality. Being interested in what other people think and believe. I'm not surprised. A one size fits all never really works or satisfies everybody.

Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism - 2009

Homesick for a DictatorshipMajority 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.

VonJulia Bonstein
03.07.2009, 19.18 Uhr

East Berliners Jump to freedom and Cross the Berlin Wall to Escape​

 

[Litwin]

I'm ethnic Russian (my mom was Ukrainian and my dad was a Jew),

no , you are a dirty sovok

 

[Litwin]

I wonder why that is?

Moscow IMPERIALISM + Marxism = the HELL

 

[Litwin]

Wow! I'm actually a bit surprised.

More than a third of over 40s believes their lives were better under communism, study shows​

COMMIES SUCK , Germany is a cool EU state , THATS WHY MANY WANT TO MOVE TO G.

'" October 7 had a particularly strong impact on Berlin's Israelis, who number between 10,000 and 30,000 based on various estimates. Israeli artists and students have been moving to the city since the 1990s in search of low rents and a lively cultural scene.

 

[BackAgain]

Failure to address the OP

The op notes that someone is claiming that some folks prefer their “good old days” under communism.

Is there any particular reason to care?

 

[Litwin]

Even more interesting is this:

Communist nostalgia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Dante]

How about asking them NOW you dishonest hack.

In your haste to troll you missed the one

30 years after fall of Berlin Wall, East Germans feel inferior​

By Reuters
September 25, 2019

 

[Dante]

The op notes that someone is claiming that some folks prefer their “good old days” under communism.

Is there any particular reason to care?

please

Nobody is looking to have you welsh on any bets here

 

[zaangalewa]

No.

No? You never read a book what has anything to do with logic and reality, isn't it? The average life span of the self defining "Eastern Germans" from Soviets grace grew 20 years step by step after the reunion. It had been 20 years lower specially because older people had been discriminated as to be "unproductive". They got not the same medical care as got "productive" people.

The questions and issue is about people who lived under Communism and how they feel about it.

They felt "beschissen" = felt bad and betrayed. That's why the wall was made so they felt also helpless and imprisoned. But because they had been indestructible Germans they made the best out of any situation. They became masters in improvisation. Nevertheless this made their former fake-governments not less criminal. This mistrust against governments became a kind of mania so many also do not trust in democracy now. They learned to be shy in case of conflicts under the Nazi-tyranny and under the Commie-tyranny. But conflicts are now much more public so they are able to be solved. But this also causes still a bad feeling because conflicts in politics had been extremely dangerous under Nazis and Commies for nearly 60 years. Traditionally Germans are by the way unbelievable polite and friendly people. Also in the East of Germany.

 

[AZrailwhale]

"Nobody" is not totally correct. There are plenty of guys, who want to live in Russia. But Russia have strict anti-migrant laws. If you are not Natalia Oreiro or Steven Seagul (or a Russian-speaking ex-soviet) - you are not welcomed here.

Nobody wants to move to Russia.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

The indigenous population of East Germany only supports the so-called far right is because they're sick of the third world animals.

It's not far right extremism you f****** retard

 

[zaangalewa]

The indigenous population of East Germany only supports the so-called far right is because they're sick of the third world animals. ...

What an absurde racist nonsense. In the East of Germany live less migrants than are living in the West of Germany.

Your are by the way no indigenous American, isn't it? We call indigenous Americans normally "Red Indians" ... better to say "Indianer". Indians we call "Inder". And traditionally Germans love Red Indians. They are "noble wilds" for us and they remember us melancholy and romantic to the way of life which we lost on our own.

 

[braalian]

Wouldn't the poll be more accurate if they asked all Germans, not just those who were previously living under Communism in East Germany?

I've visited Germany once, right after the wall feel but only saw the West.

How would that be more accurate?

The East Germans were the ones living under communism