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Originally Posted by AntEater
Also, it seems to me that many east germans are mercifully free of all those "sins of the past" guilt complexes we Wessis carry around with us.
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I really don't think so. We had the topic drilled into our heads from Kindergarten. It's just expressed differently, or not expressed at all. The GDR education tried to suppress individual political opinions, thats why the east german mind can readily swing to the extreme right or left. If you don't have an opinion you can be a fascist as well as a communist, depending on the circumstances. That was the principle in the Third Reich and in the GDR it was not that different.