This was the most advanced socialist country that existed and the only example of a socialist revolution happening in a...

This was the most advanced socialist country that existed and the only example of a socialist revolution happening in a First World country.

Sure it was ravaged by war but the soft skills existed, like, broad education, industry and infrastructure. So why did so much stuff go so badly?

The maintenence was utter shit. When the reunification happen, many buildings were dilapidated and looked depressing, the roads were shit with potholes everywhere, the whole skyline of the old town of Dresden couldn't be bothered to be rebuild of replaced and was in shambles until the reunification.

Bureaucracy was a burden, people waited years to get a shitty car. Work incentive was almost not existing with people being well trained and educated but always faked their work output.

I can't help but think that this is an example to point out the flaws in socialist ideology since it had arguably better conditions than Russia, Cuba, Burkina Faso, China, etc but still ended up displaying the exact same symptoms of mismanagement.

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It had a shit tier ideology and the historical circumstances wherent exactly favorable.

Oh please. It didn't work out, but it I'd say people like Thälmann were genuinely trying to build a socialist state - it has to be seen as an attempt and judged based on that since we have no "real" socialist country that worked in the first place.

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A socialist front seized power through the Soviet takeover, why does it fucking matter how the attainment of power was realized?

I was just challenging the "only example of a socialist revolution happening in a First World country" statement in the OP

The DDR ended up being a pawn for Soviet imperialism anyway :^)

Industry was looted and sent back to the USSR, the educated strata were purged of Nazis, so there goes most of it, infrastructure wasn't a high priority except for the stuff needed for military use, and yes, it was ravaged by war.
I wonder.

Not even mentioning the absurdity of a "socialist state", what do you have to support this claim?

lmao what

The DDR had a sick anthem

There is nothing anti-state about socialism bud

So I guess OP's point is that if we want socialism to happen in a first world country we first have to shatter it into a third world country with a world war.

This. Tankies always have the best music tbh. I don't understand it.

wat

May I advise you to read Lenin's The State and Revolution?

Still waiting for the evidence regarding the initial claim btw.

How are these two in any way or form related to one another?

A bit of how like Democratic Kampuchea was a nice co-project of Mao and the US?

That's why they had to build a wall to keep people in. Right?

I've read State and Revolution, I don't see your point

I meant Walter Ulbricht, my bad.

You're also forgetting Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

Believe it or not, prior to World War 2 most of Central Europe was incredibly wealthy and industrialized. The only issue was that the Great Depression effected those areas worse than it did anywhere in the Western World, save maybe the United States. As a result those formerly electoral governments had to change how they managed resources, which led to several choosing either Socialist or Nationalist governments. In the end the area got hit pretty fucking hard when the USSR and Germany went head to head.