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My friends have just been to the DDR museum in Berlin and they just sent me this horse shit
(hexbear.net)
You have to design your avatar and then it tells you off for not being socialist enough. It then depicts you as a factory worker (albeit a smiling one) implying that you can't have any free will or personal tastes
Socialism when no casual clothes, magazines, or beer apparently.
One more for funsies
I went there for the lols and left with an accidentally cool Marx-Engels-Lenin fridge magnet from the gift shop
They got a Marx snow globe
Maybe it's the beers talking Marx but you got a scrit that won't quit. They sell those cute, shakable globes here and... [unintelligible] ...ten euros! Get outta here...
The ostalgie shops are usually better staffed with more „authentic“ gdr stuff. To be fair it pales to the actual „remembrance“ of the former Soviet bloc - Like when I was in Belarus during the last WW2 anniversary and there was like a giant golden lenin statue to buy.