[t0rb3n]

The GDR was socialist and arguably a tyranny.

Edit: As was The Third Reich.

[unprepare]

From what little I know about East germany and post-WW2 soviet history - wasn't GDR controlled by the communist state of soviet russia?

Was it socialistic in name only, or actually socialistic in structure and policy?

Was Nazi germany not a dictatorship? How is that compatible with socialism at all?

[dghf]

If National Socialism was socialist because it had "socialism" in its name, then the GDR was democratic for the same reason.