>>102865
No doubt. It was still such a wretched, soul-crushingly horrible place to live that they had to turn the whole country into a concentration camp with guard towers, barbed wire, land mines, machine gun nests that all pointed inwards rather than outwards, and guards with orders to shoot to kill whenever they saw anyone trying to leave. It was all the Honecker regime could do to hold the entire population at gunpoint to prevent them from fleeing across the IGB on foot with whatever they could hold in their hands as they ran. When you crossed the border after the wall came down, it was like going into Mordor. Even the trees and vegetation were stunted and half-poisoned. Contaminated ground water from Soviet military depot stockpiles of diesel fuel and poison gas is going to be giving German children leukemia for the next several centuries.
in b4 "lol Germany is a worse place to live now than East Germany was then"
No doubt, but I am comparing East Germany in 1965 to West Germany in 1965. Ask someone who lived there at the time. Asked someone who traveled in the area in the 1990s.
>>102863
You aren't wrong.
>>102876
GDRaboos are vastly more obnoxious than Wehraboos. They're also vastly more common on social media, particularly in places like Le Plebbit (spit) where the mods share their enthusiasm for muh Scientific Marxism-Leninism and are perfectly okay with a bit of the ol;' goose-stepping, so long as it's the right kind of goose-stepping.
