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Kathrin has been ‘brainwashed’ by a nation before — now she’s worried her friends are becoming ‘converts’ – ABC News
After leaving Cold War Germany, Kathrin thought she’d left that paranoia behind. And then came a pandemic.
Kathrin grew up “pretty brainwashed” in East Germany during the Cold War.
Once a communist girl scout, she remembers the steady drum beat of state propaganda in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
To stop an exodus to the West, the country’s leaders had built the Berlin Wall physically and ideologically dividing the city.
But Kathrin says the country’s leaders needed to first spread enough distrust for the population to agree to being cut off from friends and family by thick slabs of concre…
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