Sunday, November 8, 2009
The Guardian celebrates by printing the ravings of Bruni de la Motte, a woman nostalgic for the good old days of the Stasi. I kid you not: East Germans lost much in 1989
For many in the GDR, the fall of the Berlin Wall and unification meant the loss of jobs, homes, security and equality...
What the fall of the East meant to her:
...Since the demise of the GDR, many have come to recognise and regret that the genuine "social achievements" they enjoyed were dismantled: social and gender equality, full employment and lack of existential fears, as well as subsidised rents, public transport, culture and sports facilities. Unfortunately, the collapse of the GDR and "state socialism" came shortly before the collapse of the "free market" system in the west.
Ah yes, gotta love the social equality of state socialism (it's just that some animals were more equal than others). I'm not sure what collapse of the free market system she's talking about, aside from the one Barack Obama is trying to usher in, but I'll keep my freedoms and you can keep your subsidized rents.
A mild stomach relaxant might be the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Interview With Adam Michnik: From Solidarity to Democracy - A Polish dissident reflects on the liberation of Eastern Europe 20 years later
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She's right. There was total gender equality in the DDR. Don't you remember all those villainous East German fraus in the old Bond flicks? Just like the men. No diff.
She remembers the good ole days, when freedom loving classically liberal political opposition, was relegated to dungeons or mass graves, snatched off the streets with just a word from a good Leftwinger doing their patriotic duty.
Now she has to put up with these backwards exploiters of The People.
Ah, the good ole days.