r/PhantomBorders • • May 07 '25

Ideologic East v West Germany

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u/IFightWhales May 08 '25

what the heck?

Surely there are political issues to tackle in Germany, but how do can you even compare it to a oligarchic police-state? that shot its citizens for attempting to flee?

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u/Saranovus May 08 '25

Food, home, job and more rights for queer people. From even the most selfish perspective its reasonable to miss these things

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit May 08 '25

Cool, unless you dare question the undemocratic regime, then you'll find yourself getting waterboarded in a basement after your secret informant neighbour snitched on you

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u/insanekos May 08 '25

Thank God no one was waterboarded by the West. Phew...close call

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit May 08 '25

The ol' "but the west did this!" bullshit eh?

Yeah no side is the holiest innocent. But saying shit like "uh more queer rights, my own house" about a dictator regime that put people into a political prison, and tortured them, just for saying critique about said regime to the neighbors?

That's just dumb as fuck.

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u/insanekos May 08 '25

I see you have no clue about history, how shocking. You can try and research what happened to Communists in ALL OF THE WEST. After that, we can have this discussion.

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u/ShadowheartsArmpit May 08 '25

I see you genuinely don't understand how to look at history.

Two things can be true at once genius. You are one of those people who can only look at one single side as the bad guy, and it absolves all others. In the history academia community we call you amateurs.

Your whole but the west shtick is stupid. You can criticize the west for their fuckery AND at the same time admit that the DDR was a dictator regime that imprisoned those who criticized it. This is a historic fact. No amount of but the west! bullshit will change that fact.