From a friend, Ilona Baumhofer:
This is a “Trabant” car in front of an apartment building. People in former East Germany were on a waitlist for years for either. Misbehave and get it all taken away from you.
No marxist, communist country has freedom of the press or freedom of speech. The media are completely controlled and instead of news they spew propaganda. We are on our way there.
People have no idea what living in a communist country is like. I grew up in West Germany, (Bavaria more specifically) – right next to East Germany and an impenetrable border separating the two. People stood in line for hours for necessities like a loaf of bread, eggs, anything and often times go home emptyhanded. They had to get on a waitlist that took years to get an apartment, tv, typewriter, bike, piece of shit vehicle (Trabant), winter coat, boots, whatever. If you got caught talking bad about the regime your chances of getting any of it were null. Travel outside of the country for average citizens wasn’t allowed. Kind of like the social credit score they have in China. There was no private ownership of real estate. Sound familiar? Neighbors, coworkers, friends and families spied on and reported each other. They got rewarded for snitching and moved up on the waitlist for items, were assigned better jobs. People got hauled off to jail all the time. Some didn’t return. People got shot and killed at the border every month, trying to escape to West Germany. The majority of people barely got by while a few politicians got to live in mansions. Angela Merkel was one of them. She was a politician in the East and after the wall fell and East and West Germany were reunited she made it all the way to chancellor. Unfreakinbelievable.
Our neighbor had relatives in East Germany and he had to apply to be allowed a yearly visit with them. They searched him, his belongings and car at the border crossing. This took many hours. Sometimes they would find more than je was allowed to bring and he was denied the visit and had to turn around. They tore up his car pretty bad, ripping out seat cushions, door panels etc.
I am appalled that Americans scream for socialism. They have no idea what Marxism, socialism, communism are like! Not the slightest idea.