I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West...

I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.

Gerhard Richter Quote About Art, Class, Ideas: I Didnt Actually Know What...

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