Austria is fucked
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Yes, but that took decades.
No, it didn't take decades. It happened suddenly, and all at once. East Germany could have gone on for a long, long time. They were a competently run commie dictatorship, if there is such a thing. It was Germans after all.
Nobody expected it, it was a total surprise, especially the Berlin Wall falling. One day, there were crowds, to big to handle, and the East German government wasn't going to send in the tanks like the Chinese and slaughter their own people.
Yeah, youre right. But generations went by under that tyranny before it ended was my point.
People shouldnt make stereotypes though. For many people in the DDR life was .. fine. Could be better, could be worse. I have a lot of East German friends. Very few of them have "horror stories".
tyranny?
One of the dangers of stereotypes is you dont recognize things in reality because they dont look like the movies.
Well, I suppose tyranny is relative, but yes - I would consider it tyrannical.
If the checks from the Soviets were still paying them they would have
Unknowable hypothetical. And the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Lots of people in Russia remember the glory days of the Soviet Union, which in some endevours of human ambition, did do great things. Made rose colored by time, we wax nostalgic.