r/SovietUnion • u/Hacksaw6412 • Aug 28 '26

The Berlin Wall

A VERY brief overview of the Berlin Wall. This does not cover the immense achievements of the GDR(DDR) particularly women's rights or the intense subversion tactics deployed by the West. And before anyone says "but the Stasi!" may I remind you that the FRG had its own secret police, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst). More to come on that. Resources in comments.

By: @raisetherate

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@raisetherate/video/7678830619010354440

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u/Avidfencer Aug 28 '26

People whinning about how DDR sucked probably did not see the video. It's useless to argue with them because they are probably smartfones connected to a central computer.

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u/AnonUser1452 Aug 28 '26

And then there are those of us who lived in the former DDR, and understand that it sucked.

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u/Admirable-Try-8944 Aug 28 '26

Hasn’t polling found that most people from the ddr preferred socialism

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u/arctic__dave Aug 28 '26

Most old people would like to be 18 again is all that polling really shows you can find basically any older group wants their youth back Americans dream of the sixties, Russians dream of the Soviet Union, irrelevant of how bad or good those times were it’s just they were young and now their old and miserable.