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I remember an anecdote from an East German woman after the Berlin Wall fell saying West German women were just now beginning to advocate for what the East German women already had.
I'm not arguing for the BRD and how not fucked LGBTQ rights were. I'm arguing against a picture that the GDR had better rights in general when in fact most people who didn't strictly follow the party line were heavily suppressed and observed.