COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 1 year agoIn DDR everyone was alloted an apartment to live in, but it was not a good place to live in but Ukraine is good 👍lemmygrad.mlimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down11
arrow-up16arrow-down1imageIn DDR everyone was alloted an apartment to live in, but it was not a good place to live in but Ukraine is good 👍lemmygrad.mlCOMHASH@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 1 year agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareGarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThe wall was only in Berlin, not the whole country like this guy suggests
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYeah, reading it made me believe that the wall split the entirety of Germany in half.
minus-squareJucheBot1988@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI was in high school before I realized (my father, an historian, told me) that the wall was only in Berlin. Every textbook I’d read up until that point implied it was all across Germany.
minus-squareFlorn [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoUS textbooks intentionally conflate the Berlin Wall with the “Iron Curtain”.
minus-squareSpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoEvery time I see the term “Iron Curtain” I can’t help visualizing an actual metal curtain lol
minus-squareFlorn [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey draw it as an actual graphic on a map of Europe lmao
The wall was only in Berlin, not the whole country like this guy suggests
Yeah, reading it made me believe that the wall split the entirety of Germany in half.
I was in high school before I realized (my father, an historian, told me) that the wall was only in Berlin. Every textbook I’d read up until that point implied it was all across Germany.
US textbooks intentionally conflate the Berlin Wall with the “Iron Curtain”.
Every time I see the term “Iron Curtain” I can’t help visualizing an actual metal curtain lol
They draw it as an actual graphic on a map of Europe lmao