Do the farmers’ protests and the growing anger against the government have parallels to the peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989? And why do many in the East no longer trust the institutions? A conversation with the East Berlin-born historian Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk.
In the East Berlin Born journalist Anja Reich recently wrote that the farmers’ protests were reminiscent of the last days of the GDR. A theory that is heard more often in East Germany. Peasant protests, dilapidated infrastructure and a government in crisis – are we experiencing a “revolutionary situation” like 1989?
There are two ways to handle events. You look at what happens. Or you look at them with a preconceived expectation, perhaps with a kind of hope of impoverishment.
Source: Stern
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