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"it probably doesn’t look dramatically different" Living in East Germany I hope it does!

• yellowapple 4y ago
  "West Germany Best Germany" -- some military staffer while planning Eastern Europe's nuclear obliteration
  • avgcorrection 4y ago
    Nukes in E. Germany wouldn’t be healthy for the W. G. ;)
• flohofwoe 4y ago
  It's interesting how it's mostly scattered small towns in East Germany, not large cities (with the exception of the Berlin city center). For instance Altenburg, which is closest to the village I grew up, so naturally I checked that first. It's a completely unremarkable little district town today with an airfield for hobby pilots, but apparently this airfield was a Soviet military base during the Cold War: https://www.mil-airfields.de/deutschland/flugplatz-altenburg.htm https://www.mil-airfields.de/deutschland/flugplatz-altenburg...
  • jotm 4y ago
    Some of the most specialized companies in Germany have their production in small unremarkable towns (that still have a huge Edeka or Lidl lol). If you want to stop the production of nuclear warheads, you cripple the factories that make high pressure, special alloy cooling pipes for example.
    • flohofwoe 4y ago
      That's more true for West Germany than East Germany during the Cold War era though, East German industry was more centralized or at least in the process of being centralized after WW2. It actually looks like most targets in East Germany were military infrastructure (which is interesting on its own, because I would rather have assumed that the goal was to inflict maximum human casualties, e.g. same as Hiroshima and Nagasaki).