This source is literally German state propaganda, btw
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Bruhhh, you really need to read this one: 
Lmao what the fuck
Edit: 
Wow another article painting the GDR as "authoritarian" without interrogating what that actually means or a comparison to West Germany.
The people gathered to demand freedom and democracy and then everything was good again.
I mean really
The people gathered to demand freedom and democracy and then everything was good again.
Why didn't people need to resort to violence? from many recent examples, state violence appears to be very effective against peaceful demonstrations so far. Wouldn't an evil authoritarian regime want to keep power at all costs?
Yep and that's why the evil GDR and USSR still exist, because they brutally used their huge militaries and extensive secret spy networks to kill all those protestors.
Did you read the article posted? even these shit ass liberals admit that state repression against these movements was minimal, except they still have to couch that fact in the same old tired anticommunist lies we've heard for years... "Well no one was really hurt... But they could have been! The government was so scary, and had authority, and was total!"
it sounded like a lib appeal for peaceful protest in the face of armed police to me. ive come to expect the jab at socialism from certain places.
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? [PDF] by Bruni de la Motte and John Green
thank you, i'm going to read this
I saw John Green and I got very confused
no, msm, contemporary us isnt east germany and vice versa.
It's be nice if it was though
But but but Trump is like Putin and Putin wants to turn Russia into USSR again because he wants to rule an evil authoritarian empire like Stalin