‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
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In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall
  • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    I always love how everything of the GDR is about the Stasi. Like, there was nothing else, only Stasi.

    And still nobody connects the dots about what was bad about the Stasi with current techno-capitalism and its little brother chat control et al.

    So, Stasi bad, but Stasi, pretending being about children, good, apparently.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      101·
      5 days ago

      Sort of like how the lesson they took away from the Holocaust wasn’t that it was bad because it was a genocide, it was bad because they weren’t supporting Jewish people and therefore they must help Israel with there genocide.

      Something is bad only if the bad guys do it , otherwise it’s necessary for security.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    81·
    6 days ago

    Sounds very good, but it comes 30 years too late. Of course Mr Hindsight always knows, but we should’ve concentrated much more on the social/cultural aspects of the reunification. Which was, in reality, more some kind of onboarding.