before letting you out via the gift store full of DDR nostalgia to buy
Holy shit you're not kidding
I went to check their online shop and it is entirely the kind of merch you'd expect to see in a pro socialist shop: plenty of Hero of Labour merch, Marx and Lenin stuff, a faux DDR passport notebook, that kinda stuff. There's a few things that border on either being actual anticommunism or possibly parody (like a sign saying "No Goods Today" in German), but none of it looks like it's meant to be ironic
Adding on as I look at more things: they sell a magnet celebrating the formation of the DDR (Republic Day, October 7th). I'm with you, there's no way this place isn't run by socialists
I was there for it with Iraq in the early 00s. The worst isn't the ones who memory hole it but the ones who will wait until the narrative has definitely turned and there's no risk of being on The Wrong Side
Then they'll come out and assure you that they always thought that way, that they were always saying it was wrong to engage in the war and that peace was the way to go. They'll try to gaslight everyone, themselves most of all