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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 03:35:32 JST kaia
   were GDR Genossen really so focused on materialistic things as it's portrayed in documentaries? all they talk about is alcohol, cars, food etc
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     Antti Metsänkylä (antmetsa@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 07:38:02 JST Antti Metsänkylä

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     @kaia Of course they were, because they were envious of all that what West Germans had. That really was outside of their own possibilities. Especially young Genoss'innen spent a lot of time with TV, dreaming about the western life style.

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 20:08:14 JST lainy

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     @kaia i mean, the goal of socialism was to make everyone rich by eliminating the waste of capitalism
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