• CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    12 days ago

    See they were simply trying to gather enough capital to feed their families which is selfish because then stalin wouldn’t have been able to have his 15th bottle of wine that night.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      Ah, here’s the town I was looking for! Behold, luxury!

      Using Google translate (as I am a monoglot):

      The settlement administration operated its own garbage collection service, which had to ensure that garbage and waste was not taken to a municipal landfill. This was to prevent the GDR population from finding out to what extent the residents of the settlement were supplied with consumer goods from the West. [ 4 ]

      The rewards of totalitarianism… kind of fucking suck.