The settlement administration operated its own garbage collection service, which had to ensure that garbage and waste was not taken to a municipal landfill. This was to prevent the GDR population from finding out to what extent the residents of the settlement were supplied with consumer goods from the West. [ 4 ]
The rewards of totalitarianism… kind of fucking suck.
![Hey, look, it's [literally any eastern bloc country during the Cold War]!](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/99c6f390-b352-4b5a-bcff-bc84de99864c.jpeg){kind=link}
Ah, here’s the town I was looking for! Behold, luxury!
Using Google translate (as I am a monoglot):
The rewards of totalitarianism… kind of fucking suck.