“In the GDR, people read much more. Education was something widely spread, but the GDR was still a country of ’little people’ wh

“In the GDR, people read much more. Education was something widely spread, but the GDR was still a country of ’little people’ when looking at incomes, career prospects, and the standard of living.“ Professor Steffen Mau from Humboldt University in Berlin and a hit parade of unpleasant facts about the reunification of Germany and its consequences: at the time of the fall of the wall, East Germans were significantly more educated than the ’Wessis’, and it was precisely from the former GDR that social policy benefits came to the West — polyclinics, kindergartens, and more. The economic upturn of unified Germany is also owed to the influx of labour from the East. And today... 50% of East Germans still feel like second-class citizens in the new Germany. In some places, this figure reaches 79%. Here they are: freedom, equality, and brotherhood... #3 Our channel: Node of Time EN Source: Node of Time EN