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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • the modern german state is pretty much defined by opposition to the gdr:

    • our national holiday is “reunification day” with the day of the attempted counterrevolution in 1953 previously filling that role in the west

    • almost all members of the former gdr state apparatus were purged in the 90s, including people like teachers and university professors.

    • the entire east german military was purged and there were criminal cases initiated against people formerly serving in the border troops. no such things had ever been done by the frg government against nazi troops btw. also unlike former personnel of the nazi army, officers of the gdr military are not allowed to be addressed by rank.

    • gdr mass organizations like the “ernst thälmann pioneer organisation” have been declared “unconstitutional” while far-right parties like the afd are left unscathed despite creeping ever closer to actual political power

    • the gdr is constantly being demonized and equated with nazi germany. schoolchildren are made to participate in performative denouncements of “the two dictatorships on german soil”. but while remembrance of the hitlerite tyranny is oftentimes paired with platitudes like “at least he built the autobahn”, media about the gdr is filled with yeonmi-park -level horror stories about the stasi. in modern german history curriculum the role of communists resisting the hitlerite tyranny is consistently played down.

    • class consciousness is being combatted by the media propagating racism. first against vietnamese people in the 90s and now against people of middle-eastern descent. this constant racist propaganda sponsored by the bourgeoisie is the main reason for the rise of the fascist afd party, though you wouldnt hear that from west german political analysts. they instead claim that east germans simply have a pathological “democracy deficit” due to “growing up in a dictatorship”

    so yeah its really fucking bleak. doomer