In my Army time, I spent one tour on the east west German border patrolling said border. I would stand there in West Germany, looking around and seeing what our way of life gave the West Germans, and looked across into the east and saw the same thing as if you went to downtown Detroit and the hood today. Nothing. Poverty as far as you could see. Run down houses, villages, towns and farmers using animals to plow. West Germans were using tractors and East German farmers were using animals to pull their plows! Communism has killed more people in their answer of total freedom than Hitler killed. Stalin himself KILLED over 50 MILLION of his fellow citizens. The commies in other countries caused probably that many. Sadly, stupid kids and they are now adults making decisions for this nation, think murderers like Che, Pol Pot, Stalin, Marx and Lenin are heroes.
Wow, whereabouts? I was assigned to the 2nd ACR in Nuremberg from '89 to '92. We were responsible for the Czechoslovak border and East Germany up to Fulda.