[lonestar]

Anybody who ever was in East Germany and/or ever looked down the wall from Checkpoint Charlie, knows the East Germans didn’t have much to lose!

[hinckley buzzard]

I travelled through East Germany by bus to west and east Berlin in 1963, shortly after the Wall was built in 1961. A shabbier, shittier hole there never was. WWII wreckage and damage was everywhere. Massive crappy apartment blocks falling apart within a few years of being built.

Oh, but they had some impressive Ulbrichtian Memorial Statuary in honor of the Great Soviet Fraternal Brotherhood.

Bet these pompous idiot party parasites just loved the artwork. But they still have to explain how, East Germany was the first State in modern history to actually lose population through the fifties and sixties. Without the Berlin Wall the country would have virtually ceased to exist.

[amigatec]

Anybody who ever was in East Germany and/or ever looked down the wall from Checkpoint Charlie, knows the East Germans didn’t have much to lose!

I sent 27 months in West Berlin, and the East was just down right creepy!!