East Germany, in contrast, declared everyone that opposed the state to be a ‘nazi’ and had them imprisoned.
Even before denazification was officially abandoned in West Germany, East German propaganda frequently portrayed itself as the only true anti-fascist state, and argued that the West German state was simply a continuation of the Nazi regime, employing the same officials that had administered the government during the Nazi dictatorship. From the 1950s, the reasoning for these accusations focused on the fact that many former functionaries of the Nazi regime were employed in positions in the West German government. However, East German propaganda also attempted to denounce as Nazis even politicians such as Kurt Schumacher, who had been imprisoned by the Nazi regime himself.[34] Such allegations appeared frequently in the official Socialist Unity Party of Germany newspaper, the Neues Deutschland. The East German uprising of 1953 in Berlin was officially blamed on Nazi agents provocateurs from West Berlin, who the Neues Deutschland alleged were then working in collaboration with the Western government with the ultimate aim of restoring Nazi rule throughout Germany. The Berlin Wall was officially called the Anti-Fascist Security Wall (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by the East German government
Yeah that’s right, I can quote wikipedia too.
I once made my own VGA switch out of a bajillion-pole/throw/whatever switch I found from an old piece of audio equipment. So pressing one button toggled 8 or 16 or some huge number of independent contacts.
I used it to switch between 1280x1024 outputs from my PC or my Xbox 360. Yes I also bought the official Microsoft Xbox 360 VGA adapter so I could play in HD on my CRT monitor, cause I didn’t have an HDTV.
Worked great most of the time, but yeah the switch was a little noisy, and some really freaky stuff happened on the screen if you pressed the switch slowly enough.
We can ask some russian citizens if they’re available.
This guy has some pretty good cartoon shorts on Russian nostalgia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGQT9b9jeI
