Notes: Ostalgie = Osten (East) + Nostalgie (nostalgia)
Standing in line forever, Stores being out of things, making everything out of everything, very low unemployment, not being allowed to go to the beach at night, illegal imports that you could only buy with West German Mark, certain things being and not being available... The GDR had good and bad aspects, and with how Aufbau Ost failed, the number of people who want it back is on the rise.
Vietnam, Korea. Guess where the Asians that worked in the GDR came from? The Koreans were all ordered back to their country when the relationship worsened (even if they had family in the GDR which was illegal anyway, contact between them and the natives wasn't wanted), but many Vietnamese stayed and are still in Germany, their children's grades are the best of all groups of immigrants.
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Notes:
Ostalgie = Osten (East) + Nostalgie (nostalgia)
Standing in line forever, Stores being out of things, making everything out of everything, very low unemployment, not being allowed to go to the beach at night, illegal imports that you could only buy with West German Mark, certain things being and not being available... The GDR had good and bad aspects, and with how Aufbau Ost failed, the number of people who want it back is on the rise.
Vietnam, Korea. Guess where the Asians that worked in the GDR came from? The Koreans were all ordered back to their country when the relationship worsened (even if they had family in the GDR which was illegal anyway, contact between them and the natives wasn't wanted), but many Vietnamese stayed and are still in Germany, their children's grades are the best of all groups of immigrants.