Ai Weiwei most definitely did not enjoy his time in Germany: “They have a different kind of suit: it doesn’t look like what they wore in the 1930s, but it still has the same kind of function” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/21/ai-weiwei-on-his-new-life-in-britain-germany-virtual-reality-film …
Ai Weiwei: “In Britain they are colonial. They are polite at least. But in Germany, they don’t have this politeness. They would say in Germany you have to speak German. They have been very rude in daily situations. They deeply don’t like foreigners”
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Ai Weiwei: “Germany is a very precise society. Its people love the comfort of being oppressed. In China, too, you see that”
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Ai Weiwei: “Fascism is to think one ideology is higher than others and to try to purify that ideology by dismissing other types of thinking. That’s Nazism. And that Nazism perfectly exists in German daily life today”
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