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I’m starting an “Over 40 Years Old” Hexbear club
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If you haven’t been through Checkpoint Charlie and shopped at GUM, you’re not really an oldhead.
One of the little pleasures of becoming commie is recalling how the GDR was portrayed in the US as some horrific nightmare state at least as awful as the DPRK is today; only to find out that, even though they had some problems, it was actually a pretty chill place to live (if anything complaints I’ve heard from former residents of the GDR was that life was a bit too boring).
An example of what I mean btw… our church had a missionary to West Germany that visited. He told us in the East, there was a bus of schoolchildren from the West driving through. The police boarded their bus and found a Bible, so they pulled all the kids out and shot them. Literally all the grown ups in my church uncritically believed this story.
FWIW, it was grey as fuck, the time tax to get basic life done was pretty absurd—and typically fell on women, and the controls on movement were suffocating.
I wouldn’t wish the GDR or USSR back into being, nor would I wish this capitalist shit-show on anyone.
The "time tax" in the FRG on women was higher with the demands for sole child care with relatively little external child caring services from the ages of 0-18 (and schools which weren't open long).