Heimweh auf Stasiland

By Scott Horton

Genossen und Genossinnen!  Do you suffer from nostalgia for the glorious days of the Peasants’ and Workers’ Republic? Do you miss that photograph of Walter Ulbricht on the wall of your office? Or perhaps you’re just a young acolyte of Karl Rove looking for ideas for the perfect one-party state. 

I have a treasure for you. It’s WFMU’s “Short Audio-Visual History of the GDR.” You can thrill to timeless classics like “Stalin, Freund, Genosse!” and that number which so closely matches the spirit of our own times, “Die Partei hat immer recht.” Who needs a party collection like the “Best Hits of the 70’s” when you’ve got this?