I agree with you. Spent time in East Berlin & West Berlin

@@anthonywalsh7613 Me too

@@Steve14ps and the beer was far better in the east ☺️👌

@@anthonywalsh7613 They did know how to brew a good beer. :-)

@@Steve14ps I’ll share a lovely tale with you. It was Christmas Eve & a group of us where about to head to checkpoint Charlie to return west. We bought a load of beer in a shop, to take back, for the festive activities. Well there was a woman & child in the queue & we had a load of East German Marks left over. So I asked for the child’s hat. We put all the money into the hat. It was bursting at the seems with notes. We just walked away & the woman & child were just open mouthed. As we got into our minibus they came out of the shop with tears rolling down the woman’s face

Artur Bychkov wait in which country did You live? Yugoslavia? Ussr? I am just curious.

bert smith No if you are a minority

What country? Not naming your country is suspicious.

@@jimkeane3823 USSR cause he got russian name

Yeah be comrades but don't forget to be a sneach and tell on them to the secret service/police if he happens to tell a improper joke or do something different than what's accepted.

huge huge discount when there is nothing worthwhile in the shops

Avidan Better than when the store have a lot of stuff but people can't afford any of it.

@@shade221 People acknowledged that there may have not been as much variety as the west boasts about, but at least they had all the necessities and basic supplies and were able to have a comfortable life not based on materialistic standards.

@nickys34 if the poor r living so well then why r they always forced to demonstrate to draw attention to their plight , it can't be bcoz they have the freedom to do that as the rich have the same freedom but they never take to the streets , it's obvious this claim about the poor being better off in a market economy is not true at all and plz note that if capitalist countries have become livable for the poor it's bcoz of their adoption of the welfare state which is a socialist idea !

@nickys34 All thanks to the adoption of the welfare state which is socialist ! Socialism has saved capitalism , what an irony and yet socialism is being constantly demonised , really sad , capitalists need to acknowledge their debt to socialism for saving it !

In the East you did not live as long as the state sees everyone as expendable.

mam nadzieję Why?

subjective

And if you lived in the West you’d say the same thing. And if you lived in the north you’d also say the same thing. And if you lived......yeah you get where I’m going with this. “My side is better than yours”

And if you lived in the West you’d say the same thing. And if you lived in the north you’d also say the same thing. And if you lived......yeah you get where I’m going with this. “My side is better than yours”

They(West German)will never let you matchup with western living standard! Keep the east poor and reliance on western finance and knees! This is their true intention.

Most countries have to build a wall to keep people out, communist have to build a wall to keep people in. Says a lot about Communist. The average communist is a loser who needs to the state to prop them up cause the free market deems them less than shit.....and communist are less than shit.

Henry Seidel 7

Or they just didn t make it...

@nickys34 Have you ever met and talked to someone from there ? To learn about the real motifs of those people. You sound like a manipulated, brainwashed guy who talks about things he has never seen himself.

@nickys34 ukposts.info/have/v-deo/p6R-qLBrrm9lsqc.html

+Alex Jhons social democracy

+Alex Jhons no, they cannot get the good sides of capitalism because communism leaves its nasty stains for decades after it falls, its not something people outside of the eastern bloc understand

Capitalism and imperialisms stains last alot longer. Slavery, colonialism, thousands of wars, Nationalism, ...

Alex Jhons lol what

Sounds like something I would have heard of Vremya. While ignoring the fact that USSR used political laborers to build Stalinist Russia and the Soviet empire games in Asia,Africa and Latin America.

There's no place like home

home is where the heart is

Me too

A case of either being owned by the the state or the 'man' (corporations). More than ever Debt is the prison. Much of the Neoliberal dream is built on the myth of choice.... In my travels I have always found an oppressed people (East Germany, Romania, Poland, Hungry 1980's, Zimbabwe late 90's ) always show empathy towards others. Oppression is not good, but rampant choice driven by consumerism seems just to produce a society of selfish individuals, ie London British, Silicon Valley Constitutionalist/Libertarian Americans....I understand why now some look to the past with rose tinted glasses..Is the Nordic form of Socialism the way to go? Jenkes Law....

Oh man! I understand you, in rural areas of Colombia people are a lot nicer than in the cities, but they've never been communists. Also Singapore is one of the the three most libertarian economies of the world, with an unusual political system.

The Soviet Union was one of the victims of WW2 while also been the main superpower supporting DDR, While FRG had the US which was isolated from the war

You are right. I spend my holidays in Sussex every year. And I am shocked about the prices for property there. A fortune for a wooden hut ! In Germany the price for a house of course depends on the place. There are extremely low-price places as well as expensive estates. The price for a house in a larger city may be five times higher than in a quiet, rural area in the hilly countryside of East Germany.

@@henryseidel5469 Yes that is what my German friend Peter was always keen to remind me and would say, "hey but this is not Berlin or Munich where the price for the same type of property would be a crazy amount". I'd already accounted for that and was comparing 'like for like'.....eg; the medium size village he had moved to after selling his house was the same population size as where i live in UK yet a 2 bed flat in my area sells at around €150,000 and they are much smaller than the one my friend had in Germany. UK is not a cheap country to live and we have some very punitive taxes.

@@Bulletguy07 I know very well what you are talking about for I have spent my holidays in Britain very often. Except this year due to that Corona monster, which seems to have become a mixture of medical and home policy deficiencies. I am not sure yet. And I am not quite sure what the price for a house in Germany is dependent on. But I suppose it is the industry around the place and the chance of getting a job there. Elderly people with a good pension or civil servants (teachers etc.) tend to move to smaller places in East Germany, where the houses are of good quality and the costs for infrastructure are low. I live in an area very close to the Czech border, and I will never go away from here for the purchasing power is as high as nowhere else in Germany. Younger people of course have to go to places where they find jobs.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. Socialism is just an economic system

captailistic people are not friendly they are materialistic and they gonna use you tell you become worthless to them

perhaps he has friendly STAZI memories

I agree . Don’t know if it was best for his kids.

...you’re...

No ! East Germany needs its industry back it was deprived of thirty years ago. It has been turned into a colony.

They all lost the jobs they got promised and now have to hope to get one remotely to their liking

Yes, and the extra tax that West-Germans had to pay for some 30 years was a huge reason for those improvements. I had some neighbors in 'West' Germany who complained of their deteriorating roads at the expense of improvements in the 'East.'

East germany had basically no natural resources, no marshall plan and had to pay reparations to the ussr. Still, it had better working conditions, a sense of unity, more direct ways to have a say in the government, you could speak out against your boss but not your government (I'll let you decide which is more important), much more social security (free healthcare, very cheap vacation, basically free public transport, cheap cars, (though they would take a long time to get delivered, but you could get really far on a liter compared to western cars, and public transport was good, so you didn't really need one,) no fascists in the government... Of course there was the wall, but you could cross it. It was an overly beurocratic process though, but that's reasonable, west and east germany were always very close to war, with west germany having nukes. East germany also had to recover from a massive brain drain, because mostly young, intelligent people thought they would have a better life in the west, taking the social security from the east as forgranted, a big mistake. For what it's situation was, east germany was amazing.

Nah, 90% of those that lived in former Prussia are dead now.

@@Literally-Brian Well it could have still meant the ancestorial lands

Flavius Belisarius thats not their ancestral lands though. Prussia has historically been slavic and baltic

Lasse Riise yeah, slavic AND baltic. Prussia was home to both balts and slavic Pomeranians

If you read into history you will discover that pretty much all of current eastern Germany used to be Slavic in the first millennium AD, and the origin of the name Berlin, like those of countless of towns in the region, are also Slavic. And it all is the best kept secret in Germany. It is verboten to talk about it and teach in schools.

"FGR citizen moves to GDR. Instantly regrets it". - Sounds like a good youtube video title.

How about the evil empire of the west

You dirty Commie.

Capitalist lackey

Sycophantic neanderthal and capitalist cannon fodder

once a big mouth....always the same

Once a cheater always a cheater

Don`t need to, taxes and eternal debt are enough,

Yes they do! George W Bush started the border wall between the US and Mexico. President Trump wants to finish/improve it.

Yeah no wall around palestine ...

Democracies do drug business in an industry scale! Good for you!

GDR Had wall to keep people in, USA building wall to keep people out.

But if you had a closer look you would realize that there are large differences in prices, in payment and in pensions. Even thirty years after the so called reunification there is no unity at all.

Slavery in the USA ?

STOCKHOLM syndrome

@@bryanholden1558 2019 - 1865 = ?

@@Hannodb1961 As capitalism traverses its historical path, exploiting workers, perpetuating inequalities and deprivation, pitting individuals, institutions and nations against each other in a struggle for survival, legitimizing the use of force as a solution to their disagreements and utilizing war as a means of resolving its problems, all in order to maximise private profits.

@@bryanholden1558 NEWS FLASH! Nothing is for free, and you are not entitled to anyone's labor. Capitalism is simply the idea that people have the freedom and right to enter into mutually beneficial contracts that would add value for both parties. Those who have the most to offer, have the most to gain, those who have little to offer, must be happy with what they get. Fact of the matter is: For all its flaws, it is still the most efficient, effective and fair system to generate wealth. You can criticize it all you want, but unless you can come up with a WORKING alternative (And no, neither socialism nor communism works) its nothing but hot air by a spoiled brat who think he's entitled to take more value from society than he is putting in. If you don't like working for McDonalds, no one if preventing you from returning to the stone age and live in a cave. Just quit blaming other people for your choices.