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Anyone who perceives east simply as a curious land of legal deviation, as a bizarre dark Germany, misunderstands a decisive point: this perception of outside is not in least of self-perception of those who are not only in Eastern Länder, but also in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic against refugee policy. The man of former Eastern Bloc understands himself as innocent through and through. He consumes from a decades-long state doctrine. She said that West is capitalist and fascist, but one is socialist and refore anti-fascist from outset.
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Anti-fascism was founding myth of east. The GDR did not consider itself as a successor state of “Third Reich”, rar it had defined National Socialism as a Western-capitalist peculiarity and thus made it out of country. That is why left-liberal reminders from West are still regarded as improperly: to make East Germans dangers of right thought (“Is it so far again?”) is about as sensible as a militant non-smoker disadvantages of Nicotine consumption. He feels ridiculously instructed.
Founding myths and tales of victims are habits die
As in any bourgeois drama, innocence is strongly defended. Which is why Poles are even trying to legally prohibit m from being confronted with ir own tradition of antisemitism and collaboration of individuals. Which is why Hungarians are more concerned about trauma of ir state shrinkage in 1920 than ir coalition with Hitler. Which is why Dresden, with every commemoration of bombing war, is still falling into a collective mood of mourning – something that does not come to minds of hamburgers or cologneers.
One is united in former Eastern bloc in deep conviction that West German self-contrition, processing of National Socialism, moral surplus does not feel responsible. The east sees itself today as victim, who, after desecration of Nazi state and communism, is still subjected to a cheeky examination of opinion – a threefold humiliation. One does not like such and chooses with pride of offended AfD or PiS. The founding myths and tales of victims are just habits die, yet three decades after collapse of Iron curtain y unfold ir mass psychological effect.
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This is well argued – re are also in West AfD and also in East cosmopolitanism, re are generations-specific mentality differences, re are victims and perpetrators of dictatorship, and re are also long-shared experiences. But it is unmistakable that constant reference to dealing with Pegida and AfD at same time a trivialization of Nazi time, simply does not catch in east. On contrary, summoning of great danger seems to nourish right re only. It belongs to arrogance of West German public, to a large extent to hide that decades-long-running and self-evident past management and remembrance culture are not as effortless as consumer goods in east can be exported. The recipient refuses to accept unhappy message, which only makes sender more irritated.
This article comes from time No. 13/2018. Here you can read entire output. The East-West conflict in Europe is also playing its part in Germany
Not refugee crisis has created division between East and west, but it has made it particularly visible. If East Germany were today an independent state, it would probably have a government policy similar poles or Hungarians, which is embarrassing to border guards, patriotic conventionality, ethnic homogeneity and national sovereignty. The hegemony of West in United Germany inhibits for time being a development, as it is to be seen in or former Eastern bloc countries. The new east-West conflict in Europe plays itself in miniature and in conflict, even within Germany itself – which is why debates today are also being led by writers, artists and intellectuals with a new focus.
Every school child of Eastern Bloc learned that most extreme form of capitalism was fascism. It is not without a certain irony that East German is now being told in precisely this, now almost completely globalized capitalism, that he himself is blind on famous eye. And one or or should be trained, sufficiently in a socialist dialectic, to ask cynical question wher it is not strange to let it be said of those who are responsible for causes of escape through decades of exploitation of world, How philanthropic you have to be. Are you not even forced to do something that you are not responsible for?
