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I'm genuinely pretty sure the DDR Museum in Berlin is run by socialists who want you to notice this, I swear to god that entire fucking place makes 0 sense otherwise. All the stations are like this, they're describing something good that nominally west germany did or still does but then describe it as bad because the communists did it, it ends with you looking at ginormous flat which it tells you cost the equivalent of 50€ per month or something and that nobody but the the richest 5% of the country could afford in Berlin today, before letting you out via the gift store full of DDR nostalgia to buy. Even all the most unpolitical, co-worker-belief-system people I've went there with caught on to it.

socialism is when all people in the world love each other but unironically

Yes hi I'm sending my kid to kindergarden in Germany right now. It's the same thing under capitalism 😲

Except there's worse coverage, non-german citizens get discriminated by not getting the same coverage and it costs 250€/hour if you go out of pocket.

Is this not how kindergartens are everywhere in the world or am I missing something? They are trying to make it sound extra nefarious

Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some "fun" anticommunist highlights included:

• The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
• The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
• The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
• The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
• The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
• The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
• The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren't forbidden from existing by the state
• The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it's not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn't doing this)
• There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren't allowed to deviate from the USSR's policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch

kindergarteners should have their "individual initiative" suppressed, kids at that age are SOCIOPATHS

I agree, Parenti Quote indeed. This would be "Uplifting News" material if in a Capitalist nation.

This person is gonna absolutely lose their shit if anyone ever tells them about schools.

It kinda funny how the German is already heavily loaded and trying to make it a bad thing, but the English translation is reducing any amount of nuance the original text still had left in it, painting it as this devil institution brainwashing young people into becoming soulless borg commies.

for example, the original last sentence reads like this, faithfully translated: "Socialist morals and a positive attitude to life in a community were more important learning goals than the development of individual skills."

Here's the whole thing, trying to be as faithful and transliteral as I can be to the original:
Kindergarten served not only for childcare, it was also the first educational institution, anyone born in the GDR would visit. Obviously, because of this, state leadership had an interest in providing wide coverage: places at a Kindergarten were available for way more than 90 percent of children. The daily schedule was precisely planned and applicable to everyone: they would play together, eat together and have naps together - under instruction [you could read this as "guidance" too, but the tone of the original is very clearly already trying to make the supervision part of childcare into an evil commie thing, so yea]. Socialist morals and a positive attitude to life in a community were more important learning goals than the development of individual skills.

Dance dance revolution museum

The ritual was subject to rigid planning, the couple would move together as a collective, respond to thrusts made by the other, and even drink each other’s bodily fluids through various means and orifices.

What lead paint huffing fever dream has these dipshits thinking life under capitalism "encourages the development of individual ability"

Oh no! Our daycare does all of this too! I can't believe I've sent my children to a communist daycare!! In AMERICA NO LESS!!

Teaching children collective group think… or just the most logical way to heard around 20-30 rabid 4-5 year olds who can say

Montessori, for example, has a more free-flowing structure to the child's day, where they can do an activity when they feel like it, stop when they feel like it. The idea is that then they're always in the right mental state (i.e. engagement) for the task they're doing then.

If the only reason the child is painting, for example, is "because it's 2 o'clock", then the child likely doesn't feel like doing that then.

So it's school

What the fuck, please show me even a single kindergarten in the world where things are not done as a collective, not only early socialisation of children is the point, but there's one teacher per group.

Whomever wrote this must be a camouflaged Solarian from Asimov books.

Didn't the Germans invent kindergarten lmao.

Speaking as a parent, I can say that all babies are born Libertarian. Even liberal education systems understand that they need that shit socializing out of them at an early age

~~bedtimes~~ naptimes are authoritarian and fascist

That's just a regular kindergarten though. What am I missing? "They indoctrinate" yeah, that's what insitutions of education do. Just because we like our system doesn't mean we should pretend you don't get served your head and ass with liberal talking points (case in point: That museum text).
Also all kindergartens plan the day for the kids. They're toddlers, that's kind of what they need, some adult supervision alongside the opportunity to socialize and experiment in a safe environment (which is what happens when they play together.) What would the alternative even be? The kids have to eat meals on their own? They don't get fed the whole day? They don't take naps? Try having them take naps while the rest are playing and see what happens, lmao what the fuck are they saying here?

Furthermore the kids do have individual expression in the playtime! Like what are they talking about?