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A guy called Kristian Neimietz has written an alternate history of a continued Socialist East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the scenario the anti-GDR socialists end up in charge and unification doesn't happen. As an employee of a right wing think tank he is fairly sceptical of how that would work in practise so some socialists might find it biased but I liked it.

The history described here is identical to ‘ours’ up until just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. From then on, it deviates from ours. In this alternative version, German reunification never happens. Instead, East Germans elect a government of idealistic socialist reformers. East Germany remains a sovereign country, a democratic country with a socialist economy. The new government tries its best to democratise that economy from within. They try to move away from the old top-down way of doing things and towards a participatory model of socialism. Our fictional socialist leaders have the best of intentions. They share the ideals of Noam Chomsky, Nathan Robinson, Bhaskhar Sunkara and Owen Jones. There is no Stalin-like character among them.
Our alternative history is technically set in East Germany, but it is not about that particular example of socialism: it could, in principle, be set in any socialist country. East Germany is simply the example that the author
of this paper is most familiar with.

https://iea.org.uk/themencode-pdf-v...=111111011&lang=en-GB#page=&zoom=75&pagemode=
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