The 'good old days' of East Germany

'The quality of products was much better than what's on offer today': East Germans remember the good old days at an expo selling Communist-era products in Berlin

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[cheeriosinabowl]

People are going to complain no matter how bad or good they have it. People just love to bitch.

[alfred024]

Als wenn wir in der DDR nichts zu essen gehabt hätten. Jedenfalls besser wie der HEUTIGE CHEMIEFRASS!!!

[Sismiques]

Isn't this a pre-DDR song being played?

[Ichliebegermany]

i heard that back in the old days that they had stores where tourists in east germany could go and buy east german made goods. but the catch was that you had to use west german deutsch marks, and could not be an east german citizen. Tote zu alle die Kommunisten!

[1978atcarroll]

@smeatonlad or how about Britain's "Thank you for the millions of tons of weapons, ammunition, food, fuel, and other supplies." even before the U.S. entered the war, it was helping the Allies by shipping convoy after convoy of supplies. and before World War Two the U.S. was the largest exporter of oil in the world. most of the fuel used by the RAF in the Battle of Britain came from American oil wells. it would have been hard to defeat the Luftwaffe with empty fuel tanks, eh?

[fern4ndo0]

@marilynr46 hey how about a flying car and a pizza enlarger? no? omg us is such a dictatorship

[joe579003]

@smeatonlad Consider it Britain and France's "Thank you for single-handedly fighting Japan, have a chunk of germany."

[marilynr46]

How about a computer, Ipod, or a plasma TV?

[kaotikdreamer]

@Precise2011 what are you talking about? In Germany, the Linke coalition is 4th or 5th largest party in parliament. In the Czech Republic, the Communists are the 4th largest parliamentary party and 2nd largest party membership wise.