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CNN using 'East German' in the headline as if East Germany still exists and is somehow to blame for this is incredibly cynical.
You know who wouldn't have let this happen? The German Democratic Republic. But its forcible annexation into the Nazi successor state next door, resulting in its flooding with capitalist propaganda even as the quality of life collapsed under shock doctrine, is why there is such a resurgence of far-right politics in the east. Once again, the forcible, antidemocratic destruction of communism in Europe by the US Empire reveals itself as one of the greatest disasters in history.
Maybe.
That aside: wild take.
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Soviet rule killed tens of millions. And was not democratic.
Are you saying Gorbachev should not have pursued glasnost or perestroika?
That the Berlin Wall should not have come down?
That Vaclav Havel was wrong to say, “[T]he sooner, the more quickly, and the more peacefully the Soviet Union begins to move along the road toward genuine political pluralism, respect for the rights of nations to their own integrity and to a working—that is a market—economy, the better it will be, not just for Czechs and Slovaks, but for the whole world.”?
Commies killed trillions!
I know you are joking but this is actually true. Carl Marks while he was the dictator of Russia killed six septillion people.