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TacticalCoder 7 hours ago

Wait... People want to escape from communist countries?

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nephihaha 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Remember the GDR called the Berlin Wall the "Antifascist Protection Barrier"

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immibis 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I believe the USA-Mexico border wall was called something similar

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nephihaha 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That wall is to keep people out from another state, not in.

	▲	0928374082 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		After all, they kept Paul Robeson in by simply pulling his passport, no wall needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson#:~:text=A%20month...
	▲	thatcat 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's how east berlin marketed it too, it still features bi-directional blocking abilities, like all walls.

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RobotToaster 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There were no fascists in the DDR.

There are fascists in the former DDR today.

So I guess it worked.

	▲	bentley 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> There were no fascists in the DDR. That was certainly the party line of the DDR at the time. Do you honestly believe it? It’s no coincidence that Vladimir Putin, a former KGB man who served in East Germany, claims that his war in Ukraine is justified in the name of denazification. It’s an easy rhetorical trick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_in_the_Russian_...

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prmoustache 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A communist country has never existed and never will so we will never know.

Communism is a lovely idea on paper but a complete utopia due to human nature. We are nearly all motherfuckers who if given the chance will try to obtain more power or more wealth than our peers in a group of any size. Thus you can't have all citizens of a given country agree on abandoning private ownership and sharing wealth, work and power in equal terms. Any government that pretended to do that was just faking it and forced their citizens to pretend.

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echelon_musk 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Communism is a lovely idea on paper but a complete utopia

dystopia ?

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immibis 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Communism is the idea of "can't we all just get along?" which is obviously not something you can actually implement, but is easily used as a buzzword by evil regimes. Remember, H-tl-r called his regime "socialist", much the same way N-rth K-rea calls itself "democratic"

	▲	_ink_ 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can spell out Hitler and North Korea here. Meta has no power here.