Comments by "" (@martavdz4972) on "Can German centrists keep ignoring the hard right AfD? | The Daily T Podcast" video.

@bhoffma3 "What exactly is the East complaining about?" It's the delayed problem of the Iron Curtain. It was very limiting, but it also provided safety. The Warsaw Pact nations were very homogenous and very safe. The East then wanted the travelling, the prosperity and the music, but didn't realize it would also mean less centralized industry, fewer stable jobs and less safety. These people were brought up to seek a state-guaranteed job in a factory and to work there for 45 years... and that's it. That was their world. I'm not judging them for that, I'm Czech and I know people like that here. It's the same problem in some other Warsaw Pact countries. The strong generations of the 1970's are losing their jobs and marriages and safety, and are getting increasingly stressed out from the world they weren't prepared for.
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