Agendas - indeed. It is callous to think how easily and quickly we forget all those who gave their lives to try to attain such basic human rights. The GDR stood on a premise of evil and anti-human state superiority. One would have to lean way over to the left to find value tottering and sinking in a swamp of human misery. It would have shown her true grit and risk her status of privilege.
Greatness is measured in terms of truth to oneself AND the world.
To inject a measure of small and unimportant human drama. One of my cousins refused against all pressure to join the party and play the game for the world around him. Monthly meetings with his boss were designed to affect his promotion by the simply act of going along with the system. He stood his ground and claimed that one had nothing to do with the other. This was a moral judgement by one little person that had no hope of paying off during his lifetime.