@SandyofCthulhu@chimeraxmachina There is a lot of discontent from the GDR people.
Especially from the ones who never actually had to experience the realities of the GDR, because they were too young to:
Including its secret police, the state sanctioned murders, re-education of political prisoners, and so on.
@gaston_faber@realMaalouf Oh, AI.
And here I thought I was merely talking to an idiot, but instead I am talking to an LLM, with an idiot doing prompting^^
@gaston_faber@realMaalouf Yes, that is called ethnic cleansing.
Germans were also ethnically cleansed from Russia, where they had lived for hundreds of years.
@willheist@realMaalouf Obviously the point is the connection between an ethno-nationalist blood and soil claim to land, and terrorism.
The RAF were not nationalists, and did not care about the eastern territories.
If you ignore half of what someone says, the point will likely fly over your head.
@simonrowland@realMaalouf Basically everyone was murdered by the Soviets, afaik.
In every territory they "liberated", they immediately started purging the population and sending people to the Gulag system or murdering them.
@BillP2001@realMaalouf Yes, the RAF (which sprung from the Baader Meinhoff group) were terrorists. A few dozen.
However, they were not blood and soil nationalists.
They were communists, completely uninterested, and likely to a man opposed to, Germany regaining its eastern territories.
@islandgeoff@realMaalouf Yes, the Nazis were responsible. I'd even say the Germans in Nazi Germany were responsible in general, by and large.
The ethnically German people living well outside of Germany as citizens of other nations were not responsible.
They were ethnically cleansed nonetheless.
@CoreyWriting After WW2, 10 million Germans were displaced from Eastern Europe.
In 1990, in order to unify, Germany had to give up any claim to the Eastern German territories that they had lost after the war.
A small price to pay for peace with our neighbors.
@AJA_Cortes Death touch stuff basically exists.
It is just less mystical and a lot more violent.
Just look at what is forbidden in MMA.
Striking the throat can easily kill somebody in a gruesome way with very little effort.