24 November 2012

The LIVING HELL of Socialism- in Photos

History lesson here for shallow, reality-TV-generation 
'progressive' idiots who think socialism's cool 
(no worries- there's pictures) 


East Germany (DDR = Deutsche Demokratische Republik
blamed capitalists for everything
nationalized industry, 
suppressed dissent, 
glorified a (paranoid) leader, 
and did it all the name of the 'common man' 
-sound familiar, Obammunist tools?

All was dreary and gray- except for the propaganda posters



Caught at the border... and in BIG trouble



Greatly feared Ministry for State Security (the Stasi):
'The shield and sword of the Party'



Stasi chief Erich Meilke (center) oversaw 1M full-time officers and 500K
part-time informants. Their loyalty lay 100% with the Communist Party,
and the utterly ruthless and unaccountable organization
had it's tentacles stuck-into every element of society:
it was said one in every 63 DDR citizens was a Stasi informant...
in other words, you couldn't afford to trust anybody.



Officially atheist East Germany destroyed Christian faith in
their people- today only 5% attend church in the former DDR



The country was basically run by a gang of communist thugs-
and they ran it like a prison



Youth group FDJ encouraged 'sacrifice' for the regime



Shot DEAD for attempting to escape the workers' paradise



Ubiquitous in the DDR: Erich Honecker portrait



Living in charmless, dingy mediocrity



National People's Army more a tool of USSR than 'the people'



Propaganda was everywhere



The government kept files on millions of their own citizens...



Getting over the wall wasn't enough- you still had to make it through
a daunting 'no-man's land' death-strip to get to the west.



Captured while attempting a dash to the west:
a grim fate awaited those who failed while seeking freedom...



'People's car' Trabant was a 2-stroke (oil smoker) P.O.S w/ 26 hp



Housing projects no more appealing than in the US...
more like concrete 'rabbit huts' for the un-free socialist masses



Oblivious to the will of the people, East German leadership put on an 
ostentatious 40th Anniversary celebration -even as the regime was collapsing- in late 1988... note Gorbachev next to DDR's Erich Honecker



What a dump: East Berlin 1979



No shortage of military parades, tho



That cool white guy Frank Marshall Davis was always talking about



Most pre-war buildings simply left to crumble in the DDR



1990: Good riddance sozialismus

Any protesting the putrid East German regime often paid with their lives or served long sentences while being tortured daily by twisted Stasi guards in filthy political prisons.

Appallingly, over 100 East Germans were shot dead while attempting to flee the glorious 'workers' and peasants' state'.

By any measure, once proud and world-beating German workers in Soviet Zone were reduced to uncompetitive socialist serfs with little to show for their efforts but a 500 sq. ft. concrete apartment in a high-rise block with a lovely view  of...  all the other concrete high-rise apartment blocks.

So why do so many Americans feel an ongoing desire for Obama's reckless socialist experiment when the German example should be all any thinking person would ever need?

The saying in the Soviet-dominated eastern block used to go 
'If anybody can make socialism work, it's the Germans!'... well, that depends on your definition of 'work': by the 1980s -after four decades laboring for sparse reward- the German people of the DDR only made 40% of West German GDP per person... or, meaning a German in the west averaged 250% of what was earned in socialist East Germany- not to mention the almost complete lack of freedom, human rights, and opportunity.

And despite $1.2 TRILLION spent since unification to try and get the former DDR up to speed- some see the societal and economic damage done to eastern Germany as permanent.

East Germany was heavily subsidized by the Soviets for 40 years, and was long known as the 'leading' economic performer of the COMECON communist trading block... in other words, well supported by foreign aid, and the best the socialist world had. 

Alas, the DDR was still a joke...

East Germany and the Soviets misled the world, claiming East Germany was modern and advanced, yet when West Germany finally pulled the lid off, almost everything turned out to be outmoded or unusable: a poor telecommunication system, wretched cars, labor ignorant of computers or basic office devices, World War II infrastructure still unrepaired...


Socialism sucks... plain and simple