WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GERMANY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Germany, German Unity Day - No reason to celebrate for us! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 This is the motto of our VAPCA on October 14, 2025. In addition to

engaging in a substantive discussion, we'll be indulging in the
traditional Eastern cult starting at 7:00 PM with (vegan) JägerSCHNITZEL
(hunter's schnitzel) with pasta and fruity tomato sauce. The film
screening starts at 8:00 PM. ---- On October 3, 1990, the annexation of
the German Democratic Republic (GDR) by West German imperialism finally
took place.

What was celebrated by some as liberation meant, for others, the
shattering of any hopes for a democratization of socialism.

This had countless consequences, such as the resurgence of nationalism,
the glorification of the GDR as the socialist counterpart to Nazi
Germany, and the resulting consolidation of neoliberal,
bourgeois-reactionary ideologies. We will use a film to examine the
privatization of state-owned enterprises by the Treuhandgesellschaft
(Treuhand Company), the financial hemorrhaging of the "new federal
states," and the economic, structural, and social differences between
East and West that persist to this day.

Of course, this doesn't imply that there could be a "fairer" form of
privatization, but examining it helps us understand why things are the
way they are and why the border between the GDR and the FRG persists to
this day.

At the end of the day, the GDR didn't mean the emancipation of people,
but rather authoritarian state capitalism with a red coating.
Therefore, it remains the case: If socialism, then only without states!

https://fda-ifa.org/tag-der-deutschen-einheit-kein-grund-zum-feiern/
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