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Remember the GDR called the Berlin Wall the "Antifascist Protection Barrier"
by nephihaha 10mo ago
Remember the GDR called the Berlin Wall the "Antifascist Protection Barrier"
- immibis 10mo agoI believe the USA-Mexico border wall was called something similar
- nephihaha 10mo agoThat wall is to keep people out from another state, not in.
- 0928374082 10mo agoAfter all, they kept Paul Robeson in by simply pulling his passport, no wall needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson#:~:text=A%20month%20after,in%20foreign%20countries%22%2e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson#:~:text=A%20month...
- nephihaha 10mo agoI don't need to go to Wikipedia to read about Robeson. Guy became a Stalin fan and crumbled mentally when he realised the USSR was not what it claimed. Great singer though.
- 0928374082 10mo agoI think part of what they didn't like was that in Old Man River, instead of singing: Git a little drunk An' you lands in jail for Moscow audiences he sang: Show a little grit And you land in jail
- thatcat 10mo agoThat's how east berlin marketed it too, it still features bi-directional blocking abilities, like all walls.
- RobotToaster 10mo agoThere were no fascists in the DDR. There are fascists in the former DDR today. So I guess it worked.
- bentley 10mo ago> There were no fascists in the DDR. That was certainly the party line of the DDR at the time. Do you honestly believe it? It’s no coincidence that Vladimir Putin, a former KGB man who served in East Germany, claims that his war in Ukraine is justified in the name of denazification. It’s an easy rhetorical trick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#Allegations_of_Nazism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_in_the_Russian_...
- nephihaha 10mo agoI believe this about as much as the Chinese Communist official who claimed that there were no homosexuals in the PRC. In reality, a lot of careerists shifted their loyalties from the National Socialist government to the Communist one. There were several years in which the Communists, much like their western counterparts, tried to weed out all the Nazis, before realising many of them were experienced in administering things. (The Eastern Bloc had its own smaller version of Operation Paperclip, although the scientists tended to be less willing.)
- tirant 10mo agoThe fascists were everywhere in the DDR: just called members of the party or as part of the Stasi. And I take the definition of fascists as anyone who prioritizes their political system, State or political view to a point of depriving any other citizen of their basic freedom.
- razakel 10mo agoAuthoritarianism isn't the same thing as fascism.
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