
Compact Conversations: Helen Andrews
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The Disservice of East Germany Writing Letters and Complaining
There was plenty of there was a lot of infantilization of Eastern Europeans in the post transition, like we need to go in and teach them how to tie their shoes. But East Germany in particular, to return to the country that we started with had, I mean, it was all under the control of the party,. which is, you know, bad and pathological and should not have been the case. The movie Goodbye Lenin, it's it's really good. You know, you should watch it as in a double feature with the lives of others so that you don't have an rosy picture of East Germany.
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