Ah, ok - but I did specifically say
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Uhm… I seem to have missed this particular link somehow, sorry.
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Glad to have drawn your attention to it. It’s an article worth reading. (IMO)
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The GDR always described itself as a socialist workers’ and peasants’ state.
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Yeah, it feels weird to see the GDR considered communist. I guess it’s technically true on some level but I’ve never heard it before
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“Den Sozialismus in seinem Lauf halten weder Ochs noch Esel auf!”
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The problem is that in English “socialism” can mean something like Denmark as well as Soviet satellite states like the GDR. Yes, technically even the USSR claimed it was only a socialist state that aimed to achieve true communism at some hazy future point, but it does make sense to distinguish that from the Scandinavian model.
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