Do East German boomers miss the DDR?

They made really durable shit, I have some stuff made in GDR.

>They probably hate it, since East Germany was the worst country to live in in the Warsaw pact.

It was the best in terms of living standards and general wealth. It could be one the worst in terms of political oppression though.

>What stops them from starting a business and preparing/selling this food now?
Nothing, in fact there ARE cafes that do sell it covered in east german memorabilia.

so what's their problem then? why do they miss something they still have?

There's a political element to it. Half of DDR nostalgics are "stasi bad but free shit good" and the other is "Marxist Leninism worked and DDR is proof"

the DDR was the best thing that ever happened to Germany

Some do, Ostalgie is a thing

They have more free stuff and higher welfare in a capitalist Germany than in communist DDR

Beware der Ewige Wessi

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>It could be one the worst in terms of political oppression though.
This is what i'm talking about. Why do you think so many East German citizens jumped the wall and ended up getting got? Why do you think East Germany eventually fell?

youtube.com/watch?v=r1FECIdjErk

>being nostalgic for such a shithole

CIA propaganda

>free education in any course you desire
>stable employment
>four hour work day with three days off
>right to diplomatic participation of economic planning
Also, the DDR was known for its surprisingly free outdoor life. Nudism was strangely popular in East Germany.

>East Germans jumping the fence like beaners is the result of CIA propaganda
ok

West Germans crossed the border to the East too, y'know.
Both sides were shooting propaganda over the wall 24/7.

>free education in any course you desire
>stable employment

It's the same now.

>four hour work day with three days off

lol, where did you take this from, in communist countries even Saturdays were usually working days (or days when the workers had to do unpaid work for the community/public needs)

>right to diplomatic participation of economic planning

cringe

Yes Germans tend to like to be ruled by the authoritarian leaders or being in favor of some radical right-wing or left-wing ideologies rejecting the liberal demoracy

based pole

and this is based*
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Not a second.
Even when it became a free and truely democratic country in 1989, people left by the millions. So much so, that West Germany was forced to annex it overhastedly in 1990 to stop the drain of people. And even then the movement of millions to the West didn't stop.

The East is interesting... They are more right-wing and more left-wing than the West of the country at the same time. Both AfD and Linke are considerably stronger over there.

There was an election in Thuringia/Thüringen last year where the Linke finished first, solemly because of boomer votes. The Linke officially is the main heir to the GDR party SED by the way.

So yeah, some people miss it. But not all of them. I don't think its that they miss the GDR itself, but the fact that their entire economy collapsed when the reunification happened probably pissed them off.

No, if you lived in east germany and abided by the rules you were in one of the parts of the soviet union, if not the best, to live but then try to do that in Romania and Hungary...

This is what happens when your entire knowledge of the cold war comes from watching American movies

Hungary was actually one of the best Warsaw Pact countries to live, maybe even the best - probably the most free politically and relatively well off economically

>that West Germany was forced to annex it overhastedly in 1990 to stop the drain of people.
east germany joined the brd, like it was written down in article 23 of the grundgesetz, in the first free elections of the entire ddr history. from "annexion" a one side forced integration cannot be talked here.