Qualcuno può spiegarmi questa battuta?
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Qualcuno può spiegarmi questa battuta?
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I think it alludes to the problem of transferring land and buildings back to their original owners and their heirs, which led to a lot of resentment among many East Germans after reunification. So after getting to know that it is an estate broker from Western Germany the local had no problem if he would be poisoned.
After reunification, many of the still usable/profitable assets of Estern Germany were bought by rich people in the West, which made the locals feel betrayed.
Also, strong German dialects are very hard to understand by people not from the area. So the Saxonian first warns the man that the water was poisenous (maybe also a dig on the less than stellar envoronmental protection of the GDR), but when he learns that it’s a rich western real estate broker, he lets him drink it.
I’ve seen almost this exact same joke, but in the context of a German drinking water from some polluted Dutch river. Dutch person warns the river-drinker in Dutch, but after realizing it’s a German, instead encourages the German to drink up (in German).
Many people from the east were left dirt poor because the East German government did expropriation when they took power or when a family fell out of favor with the party.
Then people from the west came, especially rich capitalists and took what wasn’t theirs to take right after reunification. A lot of property wasn’t returned to the families it rightfully belonged to but sold to real estate brokers who drove prices up so much people couldn’t afford to ever buy it back.
They also bought a lot of East German companies because they were potential new competitors on the western market and closed them down instead of investing in them, resulting in high unemployment rates East Germany still hasn’t recovered from.
So what was left after years of failed communism was crushed by the capitalistic west.