I recently became interested in the collapse of the USSR and the reunification of Germany.
For Germany it was more of a hostile take over. Many institutions like universities and other organizations in the East were shut down or had staff fired and replced by connected peephole in the western part.
Yes, the East was paradise, not depressing dystopian nightmare...
Really, who writes this crap?
I thought the part about wanting to return to Russia was critical of the east but just my read. I did not read it as factual.
The part about the reunion of east and west as a hostile takeover was from some professor at an eastern technical institute..
He went into what he observed for himself and of this colleagues. There was a surplus of professors in the west he said. Institutions from the east not shut down had staff fired and replaced by westerners.. Professors from the east were given 2-3 year contracts which went away over time and they had to change professions. Some lucky ones got jobs in west such as US.
Also this AM I herad that some so called right wing party in Germany lost seats to so called left wing former communists partiy. Both are pro worker parties. IMO thee Greens and Labor parties are anti worker parties now.
