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Originally Posted by Kolargol
Easier to compare East and West Germany - if someone saw these two countries in 1990 (I did) it was very easy to say which one was under Soviet occupation.
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i'm western german, been to eastern germany before 1989 and lived there for 3 years from 2003 to 2006
and had an eastern german girlfriend for 2+ years in 2000-2003
and we had family in eastern germany that we used to send parcels with coffee, chocolate, clothes etc
i am not saying eastern german people were generally unhappy before 1989 but given a choice, i bet a majority would have chosen the western german system when possible
and besides east berlin and leipzig, the rest of eastern germany was just ruins and outdated industry - just look at the pictures from that time