The peaceful protest that brought down East Germany – DW – 10/09/2019
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On October 9, 1989, over 70,000 people gathered in Leipzig calling for freedom and democracy — and security forces did not intervene. DW spoke to participants in the demonstration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • Yllych [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Wow another article painting the GDR as “authoritarian” without interrogating what that actually means or a comparison to West Germany.

    The people gathered to demand freedom and democracy and then everything was good again.

    blob-no-thoughts I mean really

      • Yllych [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        26 days ago

        Yep and that’s why the evil GDR and USSR still exist, because they brutally used their huge militaries and extensive secret spy networks to kill all those protestors.

        Did you read the article posted? even these shit ass liberals admit that state repression against these movements was minimal, except they still have to couch that fact in the same old tired anticommunist lies we’ve heard for years… “Well no one was really hurt… But they could have been! The government was so scary, and had authority, and was total!”