BERLIN - A majority of Germans in the former communist East feel like second-class citizens almost three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall even though they are catching up economically with western regions, a government report showed on Wednesday.
By 2018, East Germany’s economic strength had risen to 75% of the west German level from 43% in 1990. Employment is at a high in the east and wages there are 84% of those in the west.The annual report on ‘the state of German unity’ also cited a recent survey carried out for the government showing that 57% of east Germans felt like second-class citizens.
Hirte, acknowledging that the convergence process was not yet complete, cited depopulation - 2 million people, especially young people and women, have left the region in the last three decades and few big global firms have moved in.
Because they are
Why after 30 years do German consider themselves “East” Germans instead of just Germans?
When people are treated like scum, they feel like scum. What a suprise - not.
30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Western press stopped reporting on their condition.
That are not East Germans, that are international tourists visiting the last piece of the Wall in Berlin.
Indelible stigma 😟
KremlinRussia_E fuel that feeling
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