Lived experience. I happened to live through the fall of communism. The typical communist/post-communist mindset is: “Don’t oppose the system. Do what you are told to do, but throw a wrench into the machine by pretending to be dumb, sleuthing, stealing and just being generally corrupt.”
I doubt that this is a good description of current Eastern Germany. I assume the reaction to vaccination campaigns during the pandemic would have been different. Here you can see the share of the population vaccinated (April 2023): https://impfdashboard.de/ Shares in the west were, in general, higher than in the East. This is of course only one piece of data, but in general it seems appropriate to be more careful with respect to such claims.
Lived experience. I happened to live through the fall of communism. The typical communist/post-communist mindset is: “Don’t oppose the system. Do what you are told to do, but throw a wrench into the machine by pretending to be dumb, sleuthing, stealing and just being generally corrupt.”
I doubt that this is a good description of current Eastern Germany. I assume the reaction to vaccination campaigns during the pandemic would have been different. Here you can see the share of the population vaccinated (April 2023): https://impfdashboard.de/ Shares in the west were, in general, higher than in the East. This is of course only one piece of data, but in general it seems appropriate to be more careful with respect to such claims.