German Terms in Stasiland
Ostalgie – A sense of nostalgia for the way things were in East Germany.
Mauer im Kopf – the sense of there still being a metaphorical wall in your mind that separates you from fully letting go of the past or embracing unified Germany. Not because you don’t want to – but because of the psychological damage inflicted during divided Germany.
Wiedervereinigung – Unification of Germany.
Vergangenheitsbewaltigung – the process of coming to terms with the shame of the past.
Words to describe the regime and the treatment of the individuals:
- authoritarianism
- autocracy
- totalitarianism
- tyranny
- coercion
- despotism
- conquering
- control
- fascism
- force
- hardness
- harshness
- severity
- subjection
- torment
- abusiveness
- forcefulness
- iron hand
*casualty
*disenfranchised
*oppressed
*indoctrinated
*mistrust
* socialism
* capitalism
* dichotomous
* victimisation
*degradation
*symbolisation
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dys·to·pi·a (dystopia)
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noun
a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
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