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[–] Tiltinyall@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My family escaped to West Germany shortly after the war. They escaped starvation and joblessness. You are wrong.

[–] imnotfromkaliningrad@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

so all youre telling me that after the county was almost completely destroyed during ww2, the situation was dire? no fucking shit, sherlock.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

An actually ideologically socialist government wouldn't have made them feel the need to flee, and would have done better picking up the pieces

[–] Tiltinyall@beehaw.org 0 points 6 months ago

And much more so than the Allied controlled western side, hence the escape genuis.