Comments by "PeterC" (@peterc4082) on "East German's REMEMBER What The Last Propaganda Regime Was About | Prof. Dan Bednarz" video.

  1. As someone who ran away from the Eastern Bloc in 1983 I think you don't know what you're talking about.
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  2. I'm also Polish and also largely educated in the west. Was your daddy in the PZPR? Do you long for those days? Because I simply don't buy what you're saying. In Poland, Poles always thought we were the centre of the world. In East Germany they spied on each other so much, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more in love with the socialist system. And the Russians... oh they were always the best. They still don't understand why Poles don't kiss them to this day for saving us from their ally Adolf Hitler. Come on. As for moral and intellectual corrosion, most scientific achievements are Western, what did Russia give us? You know design studies had polkowniki and that's not from colonel but that the projects were headed for the shelf. Moral? Look at the wife beating, abortion, murder, AIDS, rates in Russia.
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  3. Why did you go to the US then? And why did you not return? And you can still go to North Korea. I'm also a former East European.
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  4.  @zarni000  If it were not for the Soviets Hitler would not have attacked Poland. H only attacked after signing the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact. The Russians also helped trained the German army in the 1920s in the Kama tank and flight school. The Russians also assisted the Germans in the invasion of Poland by sending them food and fuel and providing them the use of harbours and radio transmitters. Also Russia enslaved Poland and put Poland on the path for extermination in their plan to attack Europe, Poland was to be nuked in response by the Americans. So I'm sorry but the Russians were ALMOST as bad as the NSDAP. Now go away troll.
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  5. It's the nostalgia of youth which blinds you. The socialist systems of the Eastern Europe were sh-t. People forget how bad they were.
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  6. Grew up in China and f-ed off to America? So not representative of typical Chinese, who think their way is the best way.
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  7. East Germans knew they were propagandized yet they were almost all involved with the government. The amount of spying on each other was exceptional for East European countries. Now they know they're being propagandized because Russia is OK. Youth was OK. So Russia is OK, nostalgia.
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  8.  @goranvujasinovic2888  A lot of people who got out early were well off. How were they well off? They were connected with the socialist/communist party. Some people were refugees sure but many got out because connections, post communist connections.
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  9.  @stephaniechambell1493  Spot on. :)
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  10.  @anata5127  It wasn't one of the best. It was one of the best in the Eastern Bloc.
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  11. That's why you read the Pravda, i.e. The Truth.
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  12.  @JohnBurman-l2l  Who travels widely?
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  13. As someone who escaped Eastern Europe I would disagree. While people may or may not have believed what Russia was saying, they followed what Russia told them to do. Meanwhile Russians still believe they are the strongest, Russian Mir is the best and so on. They so don't believe their own propaganda they still think they won WW2 singlehandedly and UK/US destroying via bombing all of German industry while arming, fueling and feeding the Russians, did not explain the Russian taking of Berlin. You guys need to actually meet some real Eastern Europeans.
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  14. And yet Czechs kiss German a$$
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  15.  @Neonblue84  Know what?
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  16.  @francefradet2116  You're seeing things through rose tinted glasses. You're forgetting how riot police would break jaws. How products were not available and you had to queue up. How expensive or unavailable foreign products were. How the health ministry hid child epidemic outbreaks warnings so that kids would get sick and sometimes die from various viral illnesses. How you had to bribe people to get good service. How nuclear war was only a moment away. How private property was confiscated. How living in communal housing was. How books were censored. How religious practice was not allowed or at least very career restrictive. How cops were above the law. Etc.
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  17. This is BS. I'm also former East European. You fell for the orchestrated-pandemic propaganda yourself.
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