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East Germany = Best Germany (hexbear.net)

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Also, 1990 was like 5 years ago. Wasn't it? chomsky-yes-honey

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Welcome! The Revolutionary Left Radio episodes she did were quite good as well.

https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=ghodsee

I believe it was the Red Hangover episode where she goes into Germany. It was very fucked up. West Germany basically forced like a kind of reparations on the people of East Germany; stole their land, dismantled their public services and industries. She mentions a World Bank study where they measured the heights of East Germans that grew up during the years following reunification and found they were inches shorter than normal, exhibiting the type of pediatric malnutrition you would expect from someone in a famine or something.

Edit: Keep in mind she can be kind of lib and she's a huge fan of Alexandra Kollontai(who is cool), who was often at odds with Stalin. So she is very much not a fan of him.