[Bender2]

Re: As foreign films being chosen on the basis of political statements, this year's winner "The Lives of Others" is about how brutal East Germany was.

Put up yer dukes! I'll have you know... East Germany was a paradise before the evil Republicans polluted the Earth with their selfish ways!

[Borges]

It's a good film! Honecker was apparently averse to whatever slight reforms Gorby was putting forward and his dicatatorship stayed the the same right up till the Wall went down.