As a German, I neither live in a communist state nor have I ever lived in one. However, there are still too many left-wing policies that take away some of my freedoms, which is why I am considering emigrating after my studies.
I only know a lot about the consequences of communism from my grandparents, who tell me about the former GDR, or from a colleague from Kazakhstan who talks about the famines after the fall of the Soviet Union.
There is a proverb in German 'Lieber tot statt rot’, which means 'Better dead than red’. I believe that’s how we should all live. 🫡🗽
In the so called German Democratic Republic they built a wall around the whole country to create a a nationwide prison. Everyone trying to escape was shot.


My grandmother fled around 1957/58. Before the wall was completed, she and her mother took the subway and brought very few things with them.
The excuse they gave was that they only wanted to go to a cemetery. Fortunately, that was still possible at that time.🙏
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Terrible reality: The inhabitants of this country guarded themselfs with the old method where a minority of more privileged slaves suppress the majority. The slave owner sleeps well.
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