Coming from the East side behind the  wall 🇩🇪|🇩🇪and actually having grown up with a Trabant (my parents had one) and others, the school system which was politically rigged (but with very good standards esp in natural sciences), the scarcity of many products and so on: 
So I can tell
People on the other hand however made the very best out of (turning shit into gold privately) and most of them very happy with the little they had..also crime and drugs  were close to non-existent. 

The GDR however was a failed example of the pure idea of communism, an economic disaster due to a rigged political system that that clearly suppressed freedom, free market, free speech, free movement! 

There were many losers when the wall came down and the golden wests free market hit in with all power, but many winners too. 

Now the East German part as a whole is still not there economically where the western part stands, with some exceptions, East German representatives in the big political leadership teams and big companies boards are rare. People are still frustrated of the leftist green dictatorship, a system with many symptoms that is coming close to what they have escaped from. They feel the need to change most and they aren’t afraid to speak up which is why they are the biggest supporters of the AfD. There is a strong need for change in Germany, and East Germans (as a whole) from their experiences are the ones that are aware of it the most these times

@elonmusk @SeibtNaomi