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East Germany was under communist control after the fascist regime lost the war... It's accurate to describe as "authoritarian", but not "fascist."
by beambot 1y ago
East Germany was under communist control after the fascist regime lost the war... It's accurate to describe as "authoritarian", but not "fascist."
- HideousKojima 1y ago[flagged]
- nocoiner 1y agoIn fact, East Germany was so anti-fascist they erected the “Anti-Fascist Barrier” around East Berlin.
- BurningFrog 1y agoFor many, everything bad is "fascism", regardless of any similarity to the Mussolini rule of Italy 1922-1943.
- pmontra 1y agoOf course it lacked the mark on the anticommunism checkbox, but control of society and control of economy were checked. That's 50% of the fascist playbook. There was probably some nationalism too. Stalin buried internatonalism quickly. They would inevitably bow to the Russian overlords. No shame about it. We were bowing to the USA in the West and we still are. Anyway, was communism only a facade by the 70s and the 80s? In that case it was a fully fascist country. All of the East. I'd like to hear from somebody who lived in those countries at that time.