"LONG GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN: ES LEBE DER DDR!"
(A 70th anniversary message)
Despite its dissolution some decades ago, the German Democratic Republic tried its best to be one of the bulwarks of socialism and peace in Europe.
That despite from being misjudged along with former socialist countries this German land seriously clings that socialism rather than capitalism as the way to the future.
It may sound absurd, weird, nonsense, too idealistic that they speak about an alternative as a way to the fruture, but, that socialist homeland of theirs did provide a future like those of Fernsehturm and the Palast der Republik, far from the impression of the west that only limits their view to those of the Berlin Wall.
The wall may've been dismantled as well as the Palast der Republik, but the German Democratic Republic cannot be forgotten. From those years that's full of construction, education, sowing, ploughing, that's all part of creating a dynamic society and hath impressed upon everyone's consciousness the absolute necessity of upholding people's democracy, value of labor, knolwedge, and ingenuity, and also the preciousness of long lasting peace amidst the termor of conflict.
And with those years, driven by the idea of a United German Fatherland, the German Democratic Republic tried its best to upheld the culture that one would say keeping the best of its past be it the works of Schiller to the military views of Scharnhorst, so were the ever continuing legacy of Marx and Engels whose spectre continues to haunt an ever-prevailing capitalist world. The west would have assailed this former country two and fro for being aligned with the eastern bloc and socialism; but regardless of those misjudgements, slanders, the people still wishes to take back the future, that again able to forge, build, learn, work for the betterment of their homeland, and to show again to the world, as any other concerned country do, that socialism thrives.
It may sound strange tho in recalling the memories of the former country, but come to think that despite having Berlin Wall or the Palast der Republik being gone, how come the Karl Marx-Allee, Fernsehturm, the Straußberger and the Alexander Platz continue to remain still? For sure those who carry grudges against the former country would yearn to destroy those structures using the term "critical reconstuction." That phrase may sound like the need for reinventing Berlin or any other city in the former socialist homeland, when in fact the drive be like as if the country never existed; yet despite these events, these structures continue to stand as a legacy of that bygone era- that again as dynamic, future-facing.
And to think that reunification is actually an "absorption" with keeping the same "basic law" of the former West Germany as its fundamental law of the land, discimination between the former divided entities rather prevailed as "the initial euphoria about having become one unified people again was increasingly replaced by a growing sense of difference between Easterners ("Ossis") and Westerners ("Wessis")" according to Tölle.
It may sound strange tho in recalling the memories of the former country, but come to think that despite having Berlin Wall or the Palast der Republik being gone, how come the Karl Marx-Allee, Fernsehturm, the Straußberger and the Alexander Platz continue to remain still? For sure those who carry grudges against the former country would yearn to destroy those structures using the term "critical reconstuction." That phrase may sound like the need for reinventing Berlin or any other city in the former socialist homeland, when in fact the drive be like as if the country never existed; yet despite these events, these structures continue to stand as a legacy of that bygone era- that again as dynamic, future-facing.
And to think that reunification is actually an "absorption" with keeping the same "basic law" of the former West Germany as its fundamental law of the land, discimination between the former divided entities rather prevailed as "the initial euphoria about having become one unified people again was increasingly replaced by a growing sense of difference between Easterners ("Ossis") and Westerners ("Wessis")" according to Tölle.
Furthermore, despite that atmosphere of reunification and its promised developments, inconvenient realities like disjointed economic restructuring, associated with massive dismemberment of people's enterprises, deindistrialisation of major institutions, and privatisation of former state-controlled entities, occured while wealth and income inequality continues even after reunification as former East Gemans got over 40,000 Euros as opposed to 94,000 Euros that's carrieth by its former western neighbour.
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| "Long Gone, but Never Forgotten" |
Sounds both lamenting as well as nostalgic for an East German, but behind these nostalgia is the yearning to see their homeland, this time united, as redeemed from this existing unjustness. How come? With the ever growing opposition to neoliberal capitalism, of globalisation and of widespread oppression, a concerned would express that the need for peace based on justice is at must, aand a country that values labor, ingenuity, knowledge, innovation, and an outlook towards the future is possible. This post is not much of a return to the past, true that this rekindle memories, but time comes that the strength and self-confidence of the masses, may grew in the fight for realisation of such lofty goals, create a new society, from which all could develop their creative abilities.
Hence, Long gone but Never forgotten. Es Lebe der DDR!
The DDR is gone, but LONG LIVE THE DDR!
Hence, Long gone but Never forgotten. Es Lebe der DDR!
The DDR is gone, but LONG LIVE THE DDR!