Mass post-1970 travel defused the political stakes of the lost East

Evidence

The surge in travel was accompanied by a corresponding plunge in political stakes. Before 1970, the smaller number of reports facilitated widespread coping with loss at a time when spokespeople strove to muster support for border revision; later travel could facilitate memory work with less political pressure on both sides. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1380

Categorization

• QUESTION: Reader is tracing the timeline of expellee-politics decline — the causal link between travel surge and political-stakes drop anchors that decline mechanism.
• XREF: connects to: Even direct travel failed to dispel travelers’ romanticized image of the East. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 45; Postwar rootless Europeans lost the imperialist escape route into exotic lands — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 785

Broader Connections

• Even direct travel failed to dispel travelers’ romanticized image of the East. #contradicts (0.85) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 45
• Postwar rootless Europeans lost the imperialist escape route into exotic lands #contradicts (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 785