I was born in GDR and I’ve never heard that before. The vast majority of people wanted to join the capitalistic west. It was a peaceful revolution with huge demonstrations. They wanted bananas an the currency.

Imo the biggest mistake of the dictatorial party was closing the borders to the west. They were taking people’s freedom, way too much. Of course people were pissed

Edit also lol the economy of GDR was a fucking joke.