Yep, but it was so unsustainable the GDR was selling people to the west for cash to make ends meet. However, if you tried to leave on your own, they'd shoot you. But yeah, you could have an apartment.
The Berlin machine tool factory in Berlin-Marzahn (BWF Marzahn) was sold by the Treuhandanstalt to Körber AG in 1993 and closed in 2004 after some restructuring. They were afraid for a good reason
We supose to be living in better world today but is it. Those people looks much more normal to me than people nowadays. We have fancy cars, we have access to endless information seconds away in our smartphones but still, is the world became better place fundamentally speaking? I wouldn't say so.
I live in semi-rural South Africa, where life is still fairly old school. I drive a German car from 1991 that has two ash trays and wind up windows, and you can change the air conditioning with a slider, not a screen . I had my childhood in the 1990s, and apart from high speed internet and a desktop PC, I'm committed to staying in the 90s. I believe it absolutely was better.
Spoken like someone who's never experienced the dark side of the DDR. Also, who said, we're supposed to live in a better world? We just live. For our individual perception, nothing has changed since at least 10.000 years ago. Evolution is not that fast. Yes, our tricks are more complex now but our brains are wired still exactly the same way as they were then. You've got to realize these things: 1. At any point in history, people always had the exact same feelings as you. The future is always perceived as uncertain and full of risk, the past is viewed in rosy retrospection. Again, that's how our brains are wired. For the past, we have certainty. We know in hindsight, that it wasn't so bad after all, our worries didn't materialize. We had everything we needed (humans, like animals, are resource seeking, this is still part of our animal-survival brain). We understand, the things we thought were bad at the time weren't so bad at all. This makes us feel good about it. The present and future IS uncertain, and that scares us. So, what can we do about this? Most people, won't ever do anything about it. They will live their life, longing in the good old days, and regretting how bad the present and the future is. They will die bitter and disappointed. However, if you are willing to put your mind to it, there is something you can do: 2. No person, no product, no job, no amount of money, no whatever else you concern yourself with, can increase your overall happiness and satisfaction. Only you can do this. If you aren't happy with the world around you, that's the journey you need to embark on - to hope or wish for a "better" world, or the world of the past, is futile and will result in defeat. Happiness isn't something that happens around you, it happens in your brain. You can approach this through many different ways. But if you don't think about this, you will never manage to seize the day and the future with joy.
@@richardhingston6073 I think in the 1990s, we also had about just enough tech to make life comfortable and businesses productive, but not so much to completely over-rule our lives. But that said, I think every generation looks back 20 - 30 years prior driven by nostalgic romanticism and I'm sure in the 2050s, the middle-aged adults then would look back at our current era the same way. For us in the 1990s, it was early-stage Internet and a new gateway to a future that played out a bit differently to what most of us imagined back then. I think it's the same today with us being at early-stage AI for example - each social revolution will bring about winners and losers.
and now, the regular factory worker no matter where he is can hardly afford an apartment, let alone an old horrible two stroke car, and just forget the wife and 3 kids))
also the danger of walking on the streets with millions of illegal migrants from 3rd world countries wondering around trying to rob and stab you. Super violent western society where multiculturalism failed miserably.
@@Keepcalm-j7b Small metalworking industries, mainly!
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Would you please be so kind to put the names of this factories??? Needless to say that if not true you could be sued...to lie may bring you some issues ..a legal kind of..i mean...
Aluminium Bozen, Orditura Luana, Berti Group, Ponte Florio, Ingessil srl, Colorificio Casati, Mec-Tronic, Adige Costruzioni, Granitex....for each factory you can find a newspaper article that tells the worker's conditions. I am not afraid of legal consequences because it is public knowledge
@@pentu7738 This is video, not film. Look at the saturation in the brights. Note the chroma bleed around bright areas like the indicator lamp at 6:18 (due to video having a lower chroma bandwidth) and the purple at the edge of the cab window crossing the light at 6:55. Note the complete lack of dust.
Under socialism, there was no stratification of society, people lived about the same in relative poverty, but basic human needs were provided. The hero of this film obviously does not live in luxury, but he looks like a happy family man, most likely he is not burdened with a loan for housing and an expensive car. Everything that brings happiness cannot be bought with money.
That was not socialism as East Germany had regular heavy infusions of outside capital and cash because it was a front line state in the Cold War. West Berlin = same deal. Fake prosperity and someone else outside East Germany is working and contributing to make life in East Germany stable.
You forgot that hard working wasn’t rewarded. You work as a University professor after years of hard work studying and live in the same standard as a garbage guy (no offence). That’s messed up.
@@Tarek_ElMaddah they think in classes, which is not conducive. every job and every “status” deserves the same attention, because they are all cogs in a whole.
@dwave81 all the houses cost 500K and a decent vehicle is at least 30k. Our future has been stolen by greedy corporate enterprises and the politicians who work for them.
The guy with the house and a garage to park his VW Golf in is the WEST German worker, the contrast is shown with the East German who has an apartment, no garage, and a 2 stroke fibreglass Trabant.
It's crazy how relaxed their work pace is here. I worked for years in a factory in France, and we could never move at that pace or even talk without doing something. And another thing, for the same position today, the number of employees has been cut by a third... Not to mention they have cars, apartments, and children who don't live in poverty. I was born in one of the most productivity-driven eras, and that's why I packed my bag and hit the road-I'm much happier now.
Factory work is its own special kind of hell. I work nights as a security guard for a trucking company and, while I am not breaking my back, my life is black, and my future is bleak. Not even retirement will help me. Namo Amida Bu.
Today you have the same, a wife (maybe more than 1) and 10 kids maintained by German welfare service. All from middle-east…Merkel engineers and doctors.
As a German who went to DDR numerous times and having relatives who lived in east Germany, this video is showing the bright side of life there. You cannot even smell the sewer gas that flooded every streets in East-Berlin… And what about the tiny appartements that most of the people where living in a that time ? This worker probably had an important position in the party to gain access to this house. By the way, if you want to get a car in east Germany, you usually need to wait 15-20 years before getting it, because the production rate was so terrible. And I am not even talking about public transportation, health insurance, infrastructure and… democracy !
@@tuenygaard8075 Qualitativ auf jeden fall ! Mein Vater hat einen Wartburg 1988 neu gekauft und bis 2006 gefahren ohne große Reparaturen, 1990 hat er noch einen neuen Trabant gekauft, den meine Mutter bis 2012 gefahren hat ebenfalls ohne große Reparaturen und repariert haben wir fast immer alles selbst.... Ich kann nichts negatives zu den Fahrzeugen sagen, niedriger kaufpreis, wenig unterhaltungskosten, lange lebensdauer.... auch wenn das sehr viele wieder nicht hören wollen, war aber so.
Do you mean the gentleman at the end of the video? He wasn't East German. He worked at the Siemens factory in West Berlin and lived there. The producer of the video wanted to highlight the similarities and differences between two workers in similar factories (machine tooling) in the East and the West. Their jobs are remarkably similar. While it was common for Easterners to live in pre-fab apartments, Westerners were accustomed to live in houses. But notice how the house was also shared between two families. Both gentlemen drove the respective "people's car". And at the end of the day, they both had very similar lives. Their behaviors, mannerisms, and demeanor are basically the same; civilized, certain values. Finally, the Easterner, being part of the system which is about to be crushed, is worried largely about unemployment, while the Westerner, part of the "winning" side, is worried mostly about having to pay more in taxes to support the East. The Westerner is unaware, probably to no fault of his own, that to a great extent, the West profited from the East for many decades - it was the low-cost supplier of many consumer goods in the West, all the while shielding low cost jobs from creeping into the West by function of the wall. As the cabaret savant Pispers calls it: the perfect membrane.
@@divacroft1034No, VW was definitely not the most common car. It may have been the most common West German car in the Eastern Bloc, because it was the cheapest to import. The most common cars were, depending on the country, the Trabant, the Skoda, the Polski Fiat, the Dacia, the Lada.
@@XXXEspioit was a zombie factory, obsolete and unproductive. Communist crap. I can clearly be seen here, very little work was actually done, more for the camera
I'm from Romania. Not all people are the same. Is it true that the majority want a job and a family but there is a minority that are ok with capitalism because they are skilled and good at high ranking jobs that companies pay lots of money.
It was another life and there were united families. Today, people are very changed and I feel that the advance of technology caused too many cracks in humanity, mainly with the arrival of the mobile phone.
A lot of confused people here in the comments saying that they're surprised an East German factory worker had a VW Golf and a house. That's his West Berlin counterpart. It's comparing the difference between the West and East German factory workers. The East German factory worker has an apartment not a house, and parks his fibreglass car with a 2 stroke engine outside, not in a garage. But nowadays a normal factory worker would be worse off than either of them.
Everything that DDR had produced was well made and for the good price. My grandpa had Wartbourg Tourist for kraftmen work, and he was satisfied. My farher had Praktika fotoaparat, in 70. ties. Also was satisfied. They made exellent motorbikes, for reasonable price.
I was just going to comment too that East German consumer goods were incredible for their time. I have found a Ruhla digital wristwatch, still working precisely, and a couple RFT-SKR boomboxes. I also have a Robotron computer, not working, unfortunately, but by design and functionality standards of the time not far at all from Western models, judging by their characteristics and what I've read about them online.
@@GeNTooFReaK Zeiss is good quality, but Praktica's photography department died short after reunification. They were way behind western companies. I have used Praktica for many years lately, they don't compare to Japanese camera's
The products were good for the Iron Curtain but still behind western standards. Also production methods and factories were still in the 40s and 50s in the DDR. There was no real need to invest in modern production or manufacturing. Same was the case for consumer goods.
The Germans are a hardworking, talented and inventive people. It is not surprising that in the 11th century in Russia the first temples were built by the Germans.
@@einbertalstein1394 could be ,but still was far better and safer than today Germany !Besides most nazis and hoolingas are just junkies alchoholics that only bark they are a joke .
Ключевое различие - пятеро немецких детей у восточного немца, 0 детей у западного. Именно так выглядит разница в уверенности в будущем. А красивое барахло - дело наживное. Восточный немец знает, что у него и его детей будет жилье и работа, что бы не случилось, западный вроде живет лучше, но в любой момент может оказаться на улице, если дела у его предприятия пойдут не так. Потому и боится заводить детей, позволяя заселять свою страну туркам и прочим иммигрантам. Как, немцы, нравится вам ваша страна в 2024? С выпотрошенной вашими "друзьями" из США экономикой (похоже, они выращивали вас для себя, как кормовую свинью), подорванными газопроводами, обеспечивавшими энергобезопасность и куколдом во главе правительства, который ищет каких-то мифических украинцев на яхте, хотя даже последнему идиоту ясно, чьих это рук дело? С улицами, наводненными странными людьми, и людьми, враждебно настроенными к тому, что и делало Германию Германией? А после снова пересмотрите это видео.
А россию кем заселяют? Ну и уровень развития россии по сравнению с Германией какой? За "красивое барахло" в союзе убивали в прямом смысле слова. Не надо утрировать и пороть горячку. Германия всё ещё во много раз превосходит россию, почти по всем параметрам.
Западногерманский брак был показан без детей, вероятно, потому, что их дети уже выросли и переехали из дома. Германия имеет богатую социальную систему, поэтому там никто не приземляется под мостом из-за потери работы. Американцы не потрошили экономику Западной Германии, а закачали в нее деньги, потому что им нужна была сильная Германия в качестве союзника в случае войны с Восточным блоком. Именно советы потрошили экономику других социалистических государств путем чрезмерного импорта по льготным для себя ценам. Когда в Польшы на полках магазинов были только горчица и уксус, в то время в СССР на полках магазинов было полно товаров с надписью «Сделано в Польше».
@@JanKowalski-fu8uj A Pole starts lying as soon as he opens his mouth. In the USSR, especially in its Russian part, the standard of living was the lowest in the Eastern bloc. The USSR was an empire "in reverse", in which the "colonies" exploited the "metropolis". In modern Poland, there are practically no large Polish enterprises left, especially industrial ones, only Western companies. Under the Soviet "occupiers", you had a full cycle of jet aircraft production and some of the largest shipyards in Europe. And now you have nothing of your own left, you have literally become slaves of Western Europeans, although well-fed slaves.
В своём глазу бревно не хочешь поискать прежде, чем в чужих соринки высматривать? Может, расскажешь, сколько мигрантов каждый год приезжает в РФ? Или что у России двойное гражданство с Таджикистаном и безвизовый режим со Средней Азией? И что там с демографией? Уже вернулись к показателям 1991 года?
And as they said, "everything they promised us was a lie, but everything they told us of the west was true". That's why more than 300,000 according to many authors did return [and only 1/6 east Germans emigrated (as if nowadays emigration within European countries for example didn't exist lol)]
Es gibt eine Langzeitbeobachtung von Kindern aus Brandenburg, ich glaube, die Serie heißt "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind".... Da werden Kinder bei der Einschulung 1961 gezeigt und dann über 50 Jahre lang begleitet. Wie die in der DDR größer wurden, FDJ, erste Hochzeit, DDR-Armeezeit, erste Wohnung, erstes und zweites Kind, ggf. Scheidung, dann 1989 die Wende, das Zurechtfinden in den 90ern nach der Wende, die Ernüchterung, die Arbeitslosigkeit und am Ende vielleicht wieder irgendwo ein kleines Häuschen in Brandenburg - und auch die Unlust, sich noch weiter filmen zu lassen. ....... Also das ist superinteressant. Und ich vermute, viele Lebensläufe werden jenen gleichen. Man wird einfach älter, stolpert irgendwie durchs Leben und dann kommt irgendwann die Zeit, wo man keinen Bock mehr hat.
I can definitely see the social benefits of the DDR . I can see how people miss the security of not having to fight daily just to keep roof over thier head and food on the table
Drei kleine Kinder und die Pappe gab's von den Eltern😅? Sonst undenkbar, wenn man sich noch die besten Stühle geleistet hat, die hatten wir auch😊. Wer fuhr dazu schon mit dem Auto in den Betrieb, vor allem in Berlin? Außer ihm weit und breit auch kein anderer zu sehen😂. Außerdem liegen zwischen den beiden locker 15 Jahre Altersunterschied. In der Zeit haben wir unser Haus abgezahlt. Man vergleicht hier klischeehaft Äpfel mit Birnen 🍐😂
Me too! Give up my $250k USA salary, millions in investments, new car, trips around the world, massive grocery stores, buy anything I want, great private health care, owning a large home, etc. Oh yes I'd rather be in East Germany! For sure.
@@paulj2948 new cars are ugly. 80s cars are the best and I rather live in Germany than USA. the only thing from the USA I want in stores is Mylar Balloons.
East Berlin factory workers.... driving a VW golf. I heard certain people were allowed to purchase these vehicles, usually those in higher positions, both at work and within the party.
It is a West Berlin Siemens factory who was driving a VW. The creators wanted to show the differences between lives of the Eastern and the Western Berliners
@@paulj2948 The East German guy doesn't drive the VW Golf, he's the one with the blue Trabi, a 2 stroke engined fibreglass car with a waiting list of 10 years to get. That's the equivalent of the West Berliner's VW Golf.
Funny at that time was already multicultural with immigrants from Vietnam, Algeria, Cubans and so on in East Germany. In west Germany even more with Turks, Polish, Italian, Greeks, Moroccans, Yugoslavians guestworkers and more. What you people talking about?
@@liqiz1755 he's missing the good old days of hit*er like many other afd voters. He doesn't bother to think that his wealth is often due to the exploitation of underpaid immigrant labour
Need no more. And remember that DDR was the front window of soviet block. So huge amount of money was spent to keep the country on very high level... still not enough to compete with capitalism..
@@mojkochanytarpanik9024 Compete with capitalism? Maybe they should have shot footage in an Eastern Bloc country and compared it to Portugal, Greece, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria or Thailand of the time? The factors that go into understanding a nation's economic and other development is far more complex than just ideology and socio-economic system.
you are delusional....up to this day there is insane difference between west euro and eastern europe whic was soldout by usa to communists for 50 years of concentration camps in cccp...
Im Lithuanian with no German language basics, but i noticed a sticker "Wir sind ein Volk" i guess, it's mean - we are all Nation, because this video was filmed in DDR (east Germany). Nearly before collapsing Iron Wall and Soviet Union...
@@paulj2948 there is some from 1974 close to me I like the concrete sqaure style. I don't get why people nowadays are so much against that type of buildings.
@@MylarBalloonLover 1 bathroom, tiny kitchen, 1 other room for sleeping and living. Same round soviet kitchen sink, no counterspace. No dryer. Tiny washer in the bathroom! NO THANKS! In the USA I have 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, garage, big modern kitchen, Central air and heat, laundry room to start.
@@paulj2948 I lived in a 60s or 70s era apartment concrete building years ago and it was good, the Kitchen and bathroom were big enough. most apartments don't come with dryer or washing machine you have to buy those yourself and have them installed. and many apartment buildings have shared laundry room. the only good thing about USA is Mylar Balloons.
you drive a car with lawnmower engine? your friendly neighbor secretly snitch on you in secret police? vacation overseas is a crime punishable by death? as annoying western governments as they can be with all that political correctness, switching to left totalitarian dictature is not a solution
Ne das glaub ich . Bin ja Berliner hatte meine Oma und Cousinen drüben und besuchen gehen war immer eine Nervige Sache da man nie wusste ob die Vopos einen komplett durchsuchen oder nicht . Man durfte auch nicht spezielle Dinge rüber bringen . Weder bei Auto oder Fuß Übergang . Und die Menschen hatten auch Fehrn weh .
@@margritpiepes8242 Why is today's Berlin trying so hard to destroy itself? Get off your knees, take off your blindfolds, stop apologizing, you have nothing to apologize for, and throw out what's been imposed upon you since 1948.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi well let’s see thd newest most nerving thing is that Berlin Family’s looking for apartments in Berlin city . Can’t afford it rent too high but they build new apartment buildings for the refugees . There is something wrong with that picture . As a Country i Rand Card of my people first making sure kids have proper living space and mom a dad can buy food to put on the table shoes on the feet etc . Most of the Berlin citizens don’t see why going to work if the whole paycheck goes to the rent . That is ridiculous. Crime in the city is out of control Migrant gangs do their thing . Not to be a racist but even the people that came into the country and live there, they even saying it’s getting unreal . But the politicians let more a more migrants in . And then the people wonder why they vote AfD??!who is gonna pay for all of these migrants ? The taxpayer . People are fed up . East Germany had migrant as well, Chinese Pakistani Turkish India .
@@BlackPill-pu4vi well let’s Not forget that Hitler had his main stay in Berlin. And yes what the Nazis did was the one of the worst thing Humans can do . East Germany was just a leftover from the Nazi era
С одной стороны смотришь и думаешь, как жалко восточных немцев, а потом понимаешь, что это 90 год и в их жизни совсем скоро все станет намного лучше, а вот в жизни западных ничего уже не изменится 😂
So, in 1990 a factory worker could afford his own apartment, a car with a parking lot, and could raise three children.
Like in USSR) Today in Germany and Russia childrens it's so expensive.
that was the beauty of the East which the west is so jealous off
@@redbaron9029😂😂
Yep, but it was so unsustainable the GDR was selling people to the west for cash to make ends meet. However, if you tried to leave on your own, they'd shoot you. But yeah, you could have an apartment.
@@AllRock90 In USSR, You had a 10-20 year waiting list to buy a car. The "free" apartments were tiny and were often shared with other families.
Factory was shut down in 2004 because of lacking orders in favor of the Stuttgart one. Stuttgart was shut down 2009.
East German factory workers seem like working in a relaxed mode) But Michael's family looks very nice 👍
Its fake family in a Fake Propaganda Appartement like in propagandavideos from north korea
yes 4 people watch one person works
4:36 Irmgard Shickelgruber in her overhead crane lol.
Great video, loving the Trabis!
The Berlin machine tool factory in Berlin-Marzahn (BWF Marzahn) was sold by the Treuhandanstalt to Körber AG in 1993 and closed in 2004 after some restructuring.
They were afraid for a good reason
What did they make there?
We supose to be living in better world today but is it. Those people looks much more normal to me than people nowadays. We have fancy cars, we have access to endless information seconds away in our smartphones but still, is the world became better place fundamentally speaking? I wouldn't say so.
I live in semi-rural South Africa, where life is still fairly old school. I drive a German car from 1991 that has two ash trays and wind up windows, and you can change the air conditioning with a slider, not a screen . I had my childhood in the 1990s, and apart from high speed internet and a desktop PC, I'm committed to staying in the 90s. I believe it absolutely was better.
Spoken like someone who's never experienced the dark side of the DDR.
Also, who said, we're supposed to live in a better world? We just live. For our individual perception, nothing has changed since at least 10.000 years ago. Evolution is not that fast. Yes, our tricks are more complex now but our brains are wired still exactly the same way as they were then. You've got to realize these things:
1. At any point in history, people always had the exact same feelings as you. The future is always perceived as uncertain and full of risk, the past is viewed in rosy retrospection. Again, that's how our brains are wired. For the past, we have certainty. We know in hindsight, that it wasn't so bad after all, our worries didn't materialize. We had everything we needed (humans, like animals, are resource seeking, this is still part of our animal-survival brain). We understand, the things we thought were bad at the time weren't so bad at all. This makes us feel good about it. The present and future IS uncertain, and that scares us. So, what can we do about this? Most people, won't ever do anything about it. They will live their life, longing in the good old days, and regretting how bad the present and the future is. They will die bitter and disappointed.
However, if you are willing to put your mind to it, there is something you can do:
2. No person, no product, no job, no amount of money, no whatever else you concern yourself with, can increase your overall happiness and satisfaction. Only you can do this. If you aren't happy with the world around you, that's the journey you need to embark on - to hope or wish for a "better" world, or the world of the past, is futile and will result in defeat. Happiness isn't something that happens around you, it happens in your brain. You can approach this through many different ways. But if you don't think about this, you will never manage to seize the day and the future with joy.
@@richardhingston6073 I think in the 1990s, we also had about just enough tech to make life comfortable and businesses productive, but not so much to completely over-rule our lives. But that said, I think every generation looks back 20 - 30 years prior driven by nostalgic romanticism and I'm sure in the 2050s, the middle-aged adults then would look back at our current era the same way. For us in the 1990s, it was early-stage Internet and a new gateway to a future that played out a bit differently to what most of us imagined back then. I think it's the same today with us being at early-stage AI for example - each social revolution will bring about winners and losers.
@@computername Bravo! 👏👏👏 You are on the way to be happy, a hope so...
You are wrong
I was at a German factory about 7 years ago and was shocked that workers smoked cigarettes at work. Nice video
Looool we all smoked years ago on the workfloor.
Its because no salary if you dont work. Smoking doesnt benefit anyhow the employer so why pay from it that people stop working
Whats wrong with that 😂 thats normal in Germany
Commies let their people smoke anywhere to keep them happy.
and now, the regular factory worker no matter where he is can hardly afford an apartment, let alone an old horrible two stroke car, and just forget the wife and 3 kids))
also the danger of walking on the streets with millions of illegal migrants from 3rd world countries wondering around trying to rob and stab you. Super violent western society where multiculturalism failed miserably.
in 2024 the cars we can afford is probably that same volkswagen golf, the one in the video
@@sgtreznov9869nah, those mark 1 and 2 golf’s are collectors cars now. A good one will run you 6-10 thousand US
That's because our western nations have destroyed our own economies.
Ok.
Many factories in Italy, where I live, are worse than DDR
What are some of them?
@@Keepcalm-j7b Small metalworking industries, mainly!
Would you please be so kind to put the names of this factories??? Needless to say that if not true you could be sued...to lie may bring you some issues ..a legal kind of..i mean...
Aluminium Bozen, Orditura Luana, Berti Group, Ponte Florio, Ingessil srl, Colorificio Casati, Mec-Tronic, Adige Costruzioni, Granitex....for each factory you can find a newspaper article that tells the worker's conditions. I am not afraid of legal consequences because it is public knowledge
Phhh please...
Remarkably clear resolution😮
film>video tape
@@pentu7738 This is video, not film. Look at the saturation in the brights. Note the chroma bleed around bright areas like the indicator lamp at 6:18 (due to video having a lower chroma bandwidth) and the purple at the edge of the cab window crossing the light at 6:55. Note the complete lack of dust.
The cars were a fucking joke!!!
Profesional Video System (Betacam)
@@ernestocrespin1471but they are still driving
Under socialism, there was no stratification of society, people lived about the same in relative poverty, but basic human needs were provided. The hero of this film obviously does not live in luxury, but he looks like a happy family man, most likely he is not burdened with a loan for housing and an expensive car. Everything that brings happiness cannot be bought with money.
Im Sozialismus wäre alles großartig, wenn der Sozialismus seine Bürger nicht erschießen würde, weil sie nicht in ihm leben wollen.
That was not socialism as East Germany had regular heavy infusions of outside capital and cash because it was a front line state in the Cold War. West Berlin = same deal. Fake prosperity and someone else outside East Germany is working and contributing to make life in East Germany stable.
You forgot that hard working wasn’t rewarded.
You work as a University professor after years of hard work studying and live in the same standard as a garbage guy (no offence).
That’s messed up.
@@Tarek_ElMaddah they think in classes, which is not conducive. every job and every “status” deserves the same attention, because they are all cogs in a whole.
@@Ronline030
That’s terribly wrong. They killed the ambition inside people to do well.
Damn, dude had a family, house, car and one job in a factory. The Americans Dream was in the DDR.
Replete with Stasi oversight and surveillance though.
Ever heard of the Patriot Act?
Americans can still afford a vehicle and a home except they (we) all want huge SUVs that cost over $90k and houses that cost $500k plus
@dwave81 all the houses cost 500K and a decent vehicle is at least 30k. Our future has been stolen by greedy corporate enterprises and the politicians who work for them.
The guy with the house and a garage to park his VW Golf in is the WEST German worker, the contrast is shown with the East German who has an apartment, no garage, and a 2 stroke fibreglass Trabant.
It's crazy how relaxed their work pace is here. I worked for years in a factory in France, and we could never move at that pace or even talk without doing something. And another thing, for the same position today, the number of employees has been cut by a third... Not to mention they have cars, apartments, and children who don't live in poverty. I was born in one of the most productivity-driven eras, and that's why I packed my bag and hit the road-I'm much happier now.
Where you headed?
Commie government ran it. Inefficient. Not privately owned. Hence laziness.
@@paulj2948 I wish the Danish government gave us free Mylar Balloons. Mylar Balloons are a human right.
Factory work is its own special kind of hell. I work nights as a security guard for a trucking company and, while I am not breaking my back, my life is black, and my future is bleak. Not even retirement will help me. Namo Amida Bu.
A real German family. A wife and three children. Look what you've done to Germany now
Dagens Tyskland suger (globalist-) balle.
In the west was the same, now is different everywhere
@@ArgoPower the west has way worse demographics
Lol, pinko, go cry some more
Today you have the same, a wife (maybe more than 1) and 10 kids maintained by German welfare service. All from middle-east…Merkel engineers and doctors.
As a German who went to DDR numerous times and having relatives who lived in east Germany, this video is showing the bright side of life there.
You cannot even smell the sewer gas that flooded every streets in East-Berlin…
And what about the tiny appartements that most of the people where living in a that time ? This worker probably had an important position in the party to gain access to this house. By the way, if you want to get a car in east Germany, you usually need to wait 15-20 years before getting it, because the production rate was so terrible. And I am not even talking about public transportation, health insurance, infrastructure and… democracy !
Did they forget to edit out the director's cues?
The sound of reved 2 stroke engine 💪🏻😅
Der Golf 2 war mittelmäßiger Standart ! Aber die Deutschen Produkte waren Ost wie West absolute Weltklasse ❤ ich bin Stolz darauf!!!
Gilt qualitativ mit als bester Golf der vom Band lief. Bei unserem läuft heute noch das Wachs aus der Heckklappe an heißen Tagen.
Wartburg weltklasse? Praktika weltklasse? Trabant weltklasse?😂😂😂
Heb nog altijd de Golf II, een wereldauto!
@@tuenygaard8075 Qualitativ auf jeden fall ! Mein Vater hat einen Wartburg 1988 neu gekauft und bis 2006 gefahren ohne große Reparaturen, 1990 hat er noch einen neuen Trabant gekauft, den meine Mutter bis 2012 gefahren hat ebenfalls ohne große Reparaturen und repariert haben wir fast immer alles selbst.... Ich kann nichts negatives zu den Fahrzeugen sagen, niedriger kaufpreis, wenig unterhaltungskosten, lange lebensdauer.... auch wenn das sehr viele wieder nicht hören wollen, war aber so.
@@tuenygaard8075 Praktika ist heute noch bei Sammlern sehr gefragt!
The gentleman who owned Golf was a very wealthy man for East Germany.
Do you mean the gentleman at the end of the video? He wasn't East German. He worked at the Siemens factory in West Berlin and lived there.
The producer of the video wanted to highlight the similarities and differences between two workers in similar factories (machine tooling) in the East and the West. Their jobs are remarkably similar. While it was common for Easterners to live in pre-fab apartments, Westerners were accustomed to live in houses. But notice how the house was also shared between two families. Both gentlemen drove the respective "people's car". And at the end of the day, they both had very similar lives. Their behaviors, mannerisms, and demeanor are basically the same; civilized, certain values.
Finally, the Easterner, being part of the system which is about to be crushed, is worried largely about unemployment, while the Westerner, part of the "winning" side, is worried mostly about having to pay more in taxes to support the East. The Westerner is unaware, probably to no fault of his own, that to a great extent, the West profited from the East for many decades - it was the low-cost supplier of many consumer goods in the West, all the while shielding low cost jobs from creeping into the West by function of the wall. As the cabaret savant Pispers calls it: the perfect membrane.
@@cosmojetz2000
That's right, I wanted to say that at that time there were Volkswagen owners in East Germany and they were very wealthy people
dude golf was most common car in cccp...if you had car then it was most likely golf at that time
@@divacroft1034No, VW was definitely not the most common car. It may have been the most common West German car in the Eastern Bloc, because it was the cheapest to import. The most common cars were, depending on the country, the Trabant, the Skoda, the Polski Fiat, the Dacia, the Lada.
@@cosmojetz2000 you got no clue what you talking...
1:00 that tracksuit is the same when my dad was working in the DDR :D
so eine Laufkatzenbesatzung wurde später einfach durch eine Fernbedienung ersetzt.
What happened to this factory
capitalism, hundreds of unemployed, that's what happened.
Lsd
@@XXXEspio 😂😂😂
Closed in 2004
@@XXXEspioit was a zombie factory, obsolete and unproductive. Communist crap. I can clearly be seen here, very little work was actually done, more for the camera
I'm from Romania. Not all people are the same. Is it true that the majority want a job and a family but there is a minority that are ok with capitalism because they are skilled and good at high ranking jobs that companies pay lots of money.
It was another life and there were united families. Today, people are very changed and I feel that the advance of technology caused too many cracks in humanity, mainly with the arrival of the mobile phone.
A lot of confused people here in the comments saying that they're surprised an East German factory worker had a VW Golf and a house. That's his West Berlin counterpart. It's comparing the difference between the West and East German factory workers. The East German factory worker has an apartment not a house, and parks his fibreglass car with a 2 stroke engine outside, not in a garage.
But nowadays a normal factory worker would be worse off than either of them.
What is in these factories now?
The East German one is probably an abandoned ruin
In ruins...like most of Yugoslavian factories
They are in industrial productivity hell
9:07 a whiter shade of pale
Nice editing, nice wig the westberliner was wearing and interesting movie.
нету арабов и всяких фанатиков вот что было характерно для ГДР это было золотое время
Many groups were being trained in DDR😉🤫
Арабов и всяких фанатиков СССР кормил в те времена. Сейчас кормит Запад.
не стоит забывать что тех кто хотел бежать просто расстреливали
@@olegec8363 это были единицы по сравнению с тем что теперь расстреливают людей продуктами ЕЭС из пластмассы
@@olegec8363 и за этого ни кто туда ни ехал из за ограничения езд. Я бы хотел так жить лучше чем куча убийцов их других стран.
Great quality.
Everything that DDR had produced was well made and for the good price. My grandpa had Wartbourg Tourist for kraftmen work, and he was satisfied. My farher had Praktika fotoaparat, in 70. ties. Also was satisfied. They made exellent motorbikes, for reasonable price.
Praktica were nice.
@@jimbotron70 Praktica are still nice today. Also the Carl Zeiss Jena lenses are wanted all over the world nowadays.
I was just going to comment too that East German consumer goods were incredible for their time. I have found a Ruhla digital wristwatch, still working precisely, and a couple RFT-SKR boomboxes. I also have a Robotron computer, not working, unfortunately, but by design and functionality standards of the time not far at all from Western models, judging by their characteristics and what I've read about them online.
@@GeNTooFReaK Zeiss is good quality, but Praktica's photography department died short after reunification. They were way behind western companies. I have used Praktica for many years lately, they don't compare to Japanese camera's
The products were good for the Iron Curtain but still behind western standards. Also production methods and factories were still in the 40s and 50s in the DDR. There was no real need to invest in modern production or manufacturing. Same was the case for consumer goods.
The Germans are a hardworking, talented and inventive people. It is not surprising that in the 11th century in Russia the first temples were built by the Germans.
Good products, but a little outdated. And the market in the GDR was - after reunification - hungry for western stuff.
Ich will meine DDR zurück.
Wrong word in the description unification! Should be colonization instead!
Also since only a third got it better it should also be called a failure!
No stabbings ,just people living the moment !
You have no idea. There was a super strong neo nazi and hooligan presence at the Wendezeit in the former GDR.
@@einbertalstein1394 could be ,but still was far better and safer than today Germany !Besides most nazis and hoolingas are just junkies alchoholics that only bark they are a joke .
Ключевое различие - пятеро немецких детей у восточного немца, 0 детей у западного. Именно так выглядит разница в уверенности в будущем. А красивое барахло - дело наживное. Восточный немец знает, что у него и его детей будет жилье и работа, что бы не случилось, западный вроде живет лучше, но в любой момент может оказаться на улице, если дела у его предприятия пойдут не так. Потому и боится заводить детей, позволяя заселять свою страну туркам и прочим иммигрантам. Как, немцы, нравится вам ваша страна в 2024? С выпотрошенной вашими "друзьями" из США экономикой (похоже, они выращивали вас для себя, как кормовую свинью), подорванными газопроводами, обеспечивавшими энергобезопасность и куколдом во главе правительства, который ищет каких-то мифических украинцев на яхте, хотя даже последнему идиоту ясно, чьих это рук дело? С улицами, наводненными странными людьми, и людьми, враждебно настроенными к тому, что и делало Германию Германией? А после снова пересмотрите это видео.
так СССР и ГДР рухнули, и будущее их превратилось в пепел, а в СССР в пьянство, наркоту и скоропостижную смерть. Так о чем ты тут?
А россию кем заселяют? Ну и уровень развития россии по сравнению с Германией какой? За "красивое барахло" в союзе убивали в прямом смысле слова. Не надо утрировать и пороть горячку. Германия всё ещё во много раз превосходит россию, почти по всем параметрам.
Западногерманский брак был показан без детей, вероятно, потому, что их дети уже выросли и переехали из дома. Германия имеет богатую социальную систему, поэтому там никто не приземляется под мостом из-за потери работы. Американцы не потрошили экономику Западной Германии, а закачали в нее деньги, потому что им нужна была сильная Германия в качестве союзника в случае войны с Восточным блоком. Именно советы потрошили экономику других социалистических государств путем чрезмерного импорта по льготным для себя ценам. Когда в Польшы на полках магазинов были только горчица и уксус, в то время в СССР на полках магазинов было полно товаров с надписью «Сделано в Польше».
@@JanKowalski-fu8uj A Pole starts lying as soon as he opens his mouth. In the USSR, especially in its Russian part, the standard of living was the lowest in the Eastern bloc. The USSR was an empire "in reverse", in which the "colonies" exploited the "metropolis". In modern Poland, there are practically no large Polish enterprises left, especially industrial ones, only Western companies.
Under the Soviet "occupiers", you had a full cycle of jet aircraft production and some of the largest shipyards in Europe.
And now you have nothing of your own left, you have literally become slaves of Western Europeans, although well-fed slaves.
В своём глазу бревно не хочешь поискать прежде, чем в чужих соринки высматривать? Может, расскажешь, сколько мигрантов каждый год приезжает в РФ? Или что у России двойное гражданство с Таджикистаном и безвизовый режим со Средней Азией? И что там с демографией? Уже вернулись к показателям 1991 года?
What happened to Michael Wiedt and Wolfgang Kurkowski? Where are they now?
14:56, 'Setz dich mal grade hin' Sag das mal heute zu deinem Kind🤣...
Das sagt mein Papa zu seinen Enkeln heute noch 👍
East Germans seem to have healthier and brighter faces. The same difference I see between Soviet and modern Russian people
They were brainwashed that the state was their provider.
@@paulj2948 I rather buy a Lada 2105 than a Amer!can car.
@@MylarBalloonLover Lada...oh the dream car lol!
@@paulj2948 Lada is cool.
die Knorr Bremse Früher und heute 2024 bin ich als Briefzusteller dort unterwegs. die Bushaltestelle gibt es dort nicht mehr.
Can't believe any one can say that things were good in DDR, they had to build a wall to keep people in for gods sake!
And as they said, "everything they promised us was a lie, but everything they told us of the west was true". That's why more than 300,000 according to many authors did return [and only 1/6 east Germans emigrated (as if nowadays emigration within European countries for example didn't exist lol)]
"Und, was macht die Arbeit? Wie immer..."
Eine Bilderbuch-Ehe. 😂
Was wohl aus denen geworden ist?
Es gibt eine Langzeitbeobachtung von Kindern aus Brandenburg, ich glaube, die Serie heißt "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind".... Da werden Kinder bei der Einschulung 1961 gezeigt und dann über 50 Jahre lang begleitet. Wie die in der DDR größer wurden, FDJ, erste Hochzeit, DDR-Armeezeit, erste Wohnung, erstes und zweites Kind, ggf. Scheidung, dann 1989 die Wende, das Zurechtfinden in den 90ern nach der Wende, die Ernüchterung, die Arbeitslosigkeit und am Ende vielleicht wieder irgendwo ein kleines Häuschen in Brandenburg - und auch die Unlust, sich noch weiter filmen zu lassen. ....... Also das ist superinteressant. Und ich vermute, viele Lebensläufe werden jenen gleichen. Man wird einfach älter, stolpert irgendwie durchs Leben und dann kommt irgendwann die Zeit, wo man keinen Bock mehr hat.
Es fehlt der Schnaps und die Sauferei.
Workers paradise!
No fat people. No auslander just germans . Good to see
aber es lebten auch Russen in der Gdr, und Russen sind auch Ausländer.
@@olegec8363 jetz wir beide wissen was habe ich gedacht
@@olegec8363hes talking abt talahons
@@olegec8363 east Germans, like Russians are Slavs, so...
I can definitely see the social benefits of the DDR . I can see how people miss the security of not having to fight daily just to keep roof over thier head and food on the table
Drei kleine Kinder und die Pappe gab's von den Eltern😅? Sonst undenkbar, wenn man sich noch die besten Stühle geleistet hat, die hatten wir auch😊. Wer fuhr dazu schon mit dem Auto in den Betrieb, vor allem in Berlin? Außer ihm weit und breit auch kein anderer zu sehen😂. Außerdem liegen zwischen den beiden locker 15 Jahre Altersunterschied. In der Zeit haben wir unser Haus abgezahlt. Man vergleicht hier klischeehaft Äpfel mit Birnen 🍐😂
7:15 Ja Genau.
YOUR END IS NIGH 'DAY IN THE LIFE OF CORPORATE DESIGNER AND CS STUDENTS'. REAL WORKERS HAVE ARRIVED!!!
I,m afraid that we today's youths ended like this worker in the future due the actually economical crisis.
I still remember the Alpen Kreuzer tentcar which we used on holidays in France. Made in the DDR
Y pensar que esto pasó en mi tiempo de vida.
Is that Nicola Sturgeon?
man wish i could go back 🔙 😔 ...
Me too! Give up my $250k USA salary, millions in investments, new car, trips around the world, massive grocery stores, buy anything I want, great private health care, owning a large home, etc. Oh yes I'd rather be in East Germany! For sure.
@@paulj2948 new cars are ugly. 80s cars are the best and I rather live in Germany than USA. the only thing from the USA I want in stores is Mylar Balloons.
....ich bin ein berliner...Kennedy says, "I'm a jelly doughnut"...and east-german says: you have to work more..and to be paid less ...)))
rest in peace germania
Tolle Zonen-Werktätige. Vorbilder an Werkbank und Waffe
Na was ein Glück, das es bei euch in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone anders war.
@@orionsuker9854 ach ich wollte mich nicht lustig machen. Gibt ja auch keinen Grund. "Zoni" oder Zone ist auch nicht negativ besetzt bei mir
@@marakujer7269 Das ist deine Meinung. Für mich ist das beleidigend. Für dich ist Negerkuss bestimmt auch nicht negativ besetzt.
Where are the turkish, muslim, uzbek, venezuelan, african guys? 🇩🇪😅
Back home where they belong
East Berlin factory workers.... driving a VW golf. I heard certain people were allowed to purchase these vehicles, usually those in higher positions, both at work and within the party.
It is a West Berlin Siemens factory who was driving a VW. The creators wanted to show the differences between lives of the Eastern and the Western Berliners
Equivalent to a westerner having a Mercedes
@@paulj2948 Mercedes are junk.
@@paulj2948 The East German guy doesn't drive the VW Golf, he's the one with the blue Trabi, a 2 stroke engined fibreglass car with a waiting list of 10 years to get. That's the equivalent of the West Berliner's VW Golf.
Compare this to modern multiculti Germany...
Funny at that time was already multicultural with immigrants from
Vietnam, Algeria, Cubans and so on in East Germany. In west Germany even more with Turks, Polish, Italian, Greeks, Moroccans, Yugoslavians guestworkers and more. What you people talking about?
Or to shithole USA
@@liqiz1755the matter are quantity and quality of migrants. just compare
you Berislamolin, Deutschland is much worse now, even worse than between 1933-45..!
@@liqiz1755 he's missing the good old days of hit*er like many other afd voters. He doesn't bother to think that his wealth is often due to the exploitation of underpaid immigrant labour
was there Mylar Balloons in the DDR times?
A great contrast of East and West Germany here
True, 30sec of screen time vs 20min in east. Beautifull example. 🤣
Need no more. And remember that DDR was the front window of soviet block. So huge amount of money was spent to keep the country on very high level... still not enough to compete with capitalism..
Ahja, wo genau? Sehen alle gleich aus. Spießer halt.😂
@@mojkochanytarpanik9024 Compete with capitalism? Maybe they should have shot footage in an Eastern Bloc country and compared it to Portugal, Greece, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria or Thailand of the time? The factors that go into understanding a nation's economic and other development is far more complex than just ideology and socio-economic system.
you are delusional....up to this day there is insane difference between west euro and eastern europe whic was soldout by usa to communists for 50 years of concentration camps in cccp...
Try raise a family of 3-4 kids in the west these days on even 2 incomes. Was the DDR really that bad?
Yes it was.
@@McVaioaverage opinion of capitalist bootlicker
@@McVaio no
@@hmmmm9174 They built a wall to keep people in.
I myself worked in a german factory in 2024 that look so much worst than this one, no safety, everything dirty, old equipaments...
DDR had well made trabants and warburgs. Both could directly go from factory to junkyard.
Heute: Wir sind woke ....*brechdurchfall*
schöne Familie
love the mullets
Im Lithuanian with no German language basics, but i noticed a sticker "Wir sind ein Volk" i guess, it's mean - we are all Nation, because this video was filmed in DDR (east Germany). Nearly before collapsing Iron Wall and Soviet Union...
A friend of me is Lithuanian she told there is a lot changed in Lithuania last years .
Why 25p? Why 16:9 frame? Use 4:3 frame @ 50p, see The BBC Archive for inspiration.
Don't get your point, looks perfect on TV via Fire TV Stick
it was good quality goods..
Spasibo from USSR
kurkowski yes very german name
A lot of Germans have Slavic roots
Izzat you BORAT?!!
As long as the population is +95% European where I live, I am happy.
I like how the homes still looked 1970s in 1990. Denmark is too modern all homes here looks boring just white painted everything.
Commie blocks are Beautiful!
@@paulj2948 there is some from 1974 close to me I like the concrete sqaure style. I don't get why people nowadays are so much against that type of buildings.
@@MylarBalloonLover 1 bathroom, tiny kitchen, 1 other room for sleeping and living. Same round soviet kitchen sink, no counterspace. No dryer. Tiny washer in the bathroom! NO THANKS! In the USA I have 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, garage, big modern kitchen, Central air and heat, laundry room to start.
@@paulj2948 I lived in a 60s or 70s era apartment concrete building years ago and it was good, the Kitchen and bathroom were big enough. most apartments don't come with dryer or washing machine you have to buy those yourself and have them installed. and many apartment buildings have shared laundry room. the only good thing about USA is Mylar Balloons.
Gosh looks just like the UK...today!
2:46 dude was one of the gay tick tockers forced to work in the factory.
Nice, without martphones!
at 2.55 its pablo escobar he is there
Кому жилось плохо в ГДР??? 🕵️♂️
Almost everyone , given the shortages & low quality of almost everything
looks no different than canada 2024 lifestyle at this point
you drive a car with lawnmower engine? your friendly neighbor secretly snitch on you in secret police? vacation overseas is a crime punishable by death?
as annoying western governments as they can be with all that political correctness, switching to left totalitarian dictature is not a solution
Well at least they’re actually German people not a bunch of Third Worlders
@@shapiroshekelberg604 was not anymore lol
For real!!!
Except East Germany had industry
Als ein relativ junger Mensch kann ich nicht alles richtig gut verstehen, aber ich hab das Gefühl, in der DDR nicht leben zu wollen
Ne das glaub ich . Bin ja Berliner hatte meine Oma und Cousinen drüben und besuchen gehen war immer eine Nervige Sache da man nie wusste ob die Vopos einen komplett durchsuchen oder nicht . Man durfte auch nicht spezielle Dinge rüber bringen . Weder bei Auto oder Fuß Übergang . Und die Menschen hatten auch Fehrn weh .
Und diejenigen die sagen die wünschen sich das AlteOst Berlin zurück die haben was an der Knaecke
@@margritpiepes8242 Why is today's Berlin trying so hard to destroy itself? Get off your knees, take off your blindfolds, stop apologizing, you have nothing to apologize for, and throw out what's been imposed upon you since 1948.
@@BlackPill-pu4vi well let’s see thd newest most nerving thing is that Berlin Family’s looking for apartments in Berlin city . Can’t afford it rent too high but they build new apartment buildings for the refugees . There is something wrong with that picture . As a Country i Rand Card of my people first making sure kids have proper living space and mom a dad can buy food to put on the table shoes on the feet etc . Most of the Berlin citizens don’t see why going to work if the whole paycheck goes to the rent . That is ridiculous. Crime in the city is out of control Migrant gangs do their thing . Not to be a racist but even the people that came into the country and live there, they even saying it’s getting unreal . But the politicians let more a more migrants in . And then the people wonder why they vote AfD??!who is gonna pay for all of these migrants ? The taxpayer . People are fed up . East Germany had migrant as well, Chinese Pakistani Turkish India .
@@BlackPill-pu4vi well let’s Not forget that Hitler had his main stay in Berlin. And yes what the Nazis did was the one of the worst thing Humans can do . East Germany was just a leftover from the Nazi era
Pfusch hätte man doch aufgrund der Mangelsituation sich doch gar nicht leisten können. Wenn schon produziert dann richtig. 😊
Vote right
Schon nach der Wende aufgezeichnet
Jo, die Stühle😂
Nach dem Mauerfall aber vor der Vereinigung
East Germany was a mess but UA-cam puts the critic comments at the bottom of the section.
Amazing quality. Sadly a lot of Germans still to this day want this to be a reality.
100% White.
the way it should be for a white, Christian, European country. a factory in Nigeria or Somalia would be 100% black as it should be.
Драбант😍
unify under gdr
Argentina 2028
Love his imitation commie stonewashed jeans.
I bet you believe in skinwalkers and the earth is flat.
trabant👻
I want to spend my whole life working in this factory. Everything is just beautiful.....
Isn't it paradise? I want to be imprisoned.
UK 2024
Is absolutely finished.
Mensch Werner in 14 tagen arbeiten wa'alle in eenem gemeinsamen Deutschland und besser bezahlt ooch noch .😁
С одной стороны смотришь и думаешь, как жалко восточных немцев, а потом понимаешь, что это 90 год и в их жизни совсем скоро все станет намного лучше, а вот в жизни западных ничего уже не изменится 😂
many italian or turkish looking men