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Are Sorbs Polish? Does anyone know about Sorbish enthnicity? [62]
And there also were people in the DDR itself who advocated for Eastern Germany to remain a separate state without joining the Bundesrepublik Deustchland.
It would have been much better for them in the long run, I think. In hindsight, the rapid unification was a total economic disaster and much of Eastern Germany still hasn't recovered from it. But from what I've researched on the subject (I'm very interested in East Germany) - the problem was that they had no real choice but to enact Polish-style reforms. But unlike Poles, they would have simply left en masse to West Germany and rendered the new DDR unviable.
There were some people that wanted a Third Way between capitalism and communism, and it may have worked in East Germany had it been enacted properly. The conditions were right - but I'm not sure that the citizens of the DDR would accept a roughly 25% fall in living standards.
I once viewed a program of the Sorbian TV
How much did you understand? I find it quite easy to understand once you get past the German accents.
We Sorbs would have been the minority in this country and after the collapse of SU the country would have joined Germany anyway, due to this overwhelming majority of germans.
Possibly not, if it was run like Czechoslovakia/Hungary and not like the DDR. It was the financial situation that caused the collapse of the DDR, not the political situation.
