Unfortunately, especially the West German people have a completely wrong image of the GDR. Probably, those who want to judge the GDR today haven't even been to the East of the Republic.
That may be true, such things can indeed only be understood if you have experienced them yourself, which is why I do not allow myself to judge the past. But: The same of course applies to you regarding life on the other side, which was not accessible to you. You have exactly zero idea about it. It would be nice, however, if today one could tell each other about it politely. Complaining only brings neither insight nor does it help with one’s own frustration. I fear that you want to feel bad and define yourself through your chronic whining. If that were gone, life would suddenly be empty.
After having experienced both systems, I would say emotionally and socially the GDR was the better system.
The social aspects certainly worked well in the GDR, but in the "West" it was not bad either, I would know that. In the GDR, however, that was not because of the bad system alone, but solely because of the people. You could have that again here and today if you started with yourself. Therefore again: Tell 51% positives here and your life will immediately feel better or simply give the saleswoman or your daughter's teacher chocolates as thanks for what they do. You will be surprised by the reactions, apparently unknown to you. You know exactly nothing from the former "West," don't overestimate yourself.
I don't want to mourn it and I am doing well today. But people were also satisfied in the GDR. At least in our generation.
No, you are not doing well, that is easy to see. For your daughter, however, I would wish that you let more light into your life so that she does not grow up in such a chronically negative environment.
The proportion of down-to-earth and reasonable people with excellent education was significantly higher in the GDR.
How should you be able to judge something from that time that you never saw let alone experienced. If that were the case, then at least a backward-oriented change must have taken place in you.
... then I also have to expect that the SEK will break down my apartment door early at six. Such a thing did not even exist in the GDR.
No, they’ll get you with a fly swatter after breakfast, here you overestimate yourself again. I am sure that in the GDR (depending on how old you even are) you kept quiet very obediently (understandably) but today behind the safe fence of democracy you act like a resistance fighter who does not pay the GEZ as a sign of his revolution. Wow - tough guy, Charles Bronson would get goosebumps.
But in my life until today I have never paid GEZ. And I will not do it out of principle.
I said it already, tough resistance from the sofa because it is safe; in the GDR, you certainly jumped the line when it came to paying, although I fear you know the real conditions of the GDR more from picture books or the regulars’ table and just parrot them; that is why many things sound the same. We have such a person here in the settlement at age 35, who babbles about his GDR that he never experienced and lives as a simple employee in a detached single-family house.
Critical citizens are observed today by a politically misused domestic intelligence service just as the Stasi did 40 years ago.
Complaining and criticizing have nothing to do with each other; the complainer does not understand that. The Stasi did that "better," so much honor must be acknowledged; besides, they were all more educated. You should cry with joy that you are allowed to go to the pediatrician with your daughter like this and that this state makes it possible for you, with that you are one of the privileged in the world but surely you have not really seen that yet; let’s hope your daughter understands that better and makes more of it than sinking into self-pity. I fear nothing can be done medically anymore. And of course, you get from cake baking to baking again, everything into the mixer and the cherry on the cake is then the forced vaccination during Corona. The main conspiracy theorists from back then are either in jail or have quietly withdrawn with your money meant for the revolution and you don't even notice it.
Are you actually a Reich citizen?
If only that were all. He only knows the stories from the regulars’ table, like so many very smart people.