[Michael81Dus]

Thanks! 40 years of communism and 57 years of dictatorship (first brown, then red) have caused much harm to their brains. But they´re just 1/4 of our population, and time will repair a lot.

All the best for 2004,

Michael

[steveegg]

Very true. They also had only one brief experience with democracy (the ill-fated Weimar Republic, for those following along that don't remember back that far), and before that, a series fo Prussian dictatorships/monarchies.