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Everyone always talks about how good the 90's were. What was bad about the '90s?
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Baseballschlägerjahre (baseball bat years) in east Germany. If you speak German or want to try your luck with automatic translation, here's a source. Neonazi violence didn't disappear after the 90s, though, and it wasn't only in the former GDR areas.
I think the former GDR areas had a rough time in general - sure they didn't live in a dictatorship anymore, but there was mass unemployment and many who had somewhat better jobs lost their status (e.g. public officials, history teachers, workers in now uncompetitive companies or engineers who were working with suddenly obsolete technologies). The contrast to the rich west Germans made it worse, and many of them bought out east German real estate.
Also, tobacco smoke everywhere all the time.