• Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Didn’t america also occupy Germany, iirc we still have a lot of bases there to this day. I guess it was just a more friendly occupation with far less oppression.

    • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      Yes, but unlike the soviets they didnt strip the industry bare as reparations and didnt put us under a totalitarian survailance state that when you protested brought out the tanks. Ofc old east germans will say “it wasnt all that bad”. yes Oskar however it was STILL A FUCKING DICTATORSHIP WHERE ⅓ OF ITS POPULATION WAS SPYING ON THE OTHER ⅔!! Yes Oskar the reunification was a robery, unjust and more an annexation rather than fusion of two equals.

      Also from what i got told, you barely knew there was an american occupation until the founding of the german republic, while in the east you defenetly saw and felt it