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  • The LIVING HELL of Socialism- in Photos

    11/24/2012 3:30:19 AM PST · by Reaganite Republican · 37 replies
    Reaganite Republican ^ | 24 November 2012 | Reaganite Republican
    History lesson here for shallow, reality-TV-generation  'progressive' idiots who think socialism's cool  (no worries- there's pictures)  East Germany (DDR = Deutsche Demokratische Republik)  blamed capitalists for everything,  nationalized industry,  suppressed dissent,  glorified a (paranoid) leader,  spied on their own citizens, hated Israel, supported Palestinian radicals,  and did it all the name of the 'common man'  -sound familiar, Obammunist tools? Stasi chief Erich Meilke (center) oversaw 1M full-time officers and 500Kpart-time informants. Their loyalty lay 100% with the Communist Party, and the utterly ruthless and unaccountable organization had it's tentacles stuck-into every element of society: it was said one in every 63 DDR citizens...
  • Why Eastern Germany Is The Most Godless Place On Earth

    05/13/2012 6:46:14 AM PDT · by markomalley · 23 replies
    DIE WELT/Worldcrunch ^ | 5/12/12 | Matthias Kamann and Gernot Facius
    More than two decades after its political reunification, Germany continues to be divided along religious lines. Christianity still holds a fair amount of sway in the West. Not so much in the East, where two thirds of the population – young and old – are declared atheists. By Matthias Kamann and Gernot FaciusDIE WELT/WorldcrunchBERLIN -- Bad news for all those who’d hoped Christianity might make a comeback now that the Cold War-era German Democratic Republic (DDR) is becoming an ever more distant memory. Atheism, according to a new study, is very much alive and well in the eastern part of...
  • 'Puzzlers' reassemble shredded Stasi files, bit by bit

    11/01/2009 7:20:33 AM PST · by Pan_Yan · 8 replies · 597+ views
    LATimes ^ | November 1, 2009 | Kate Connolly
    [Snip] The shredded files, which any good German bureaucrat knows as vorvernichtete Akten or pre-destroyed files -- fill a staggering 16,000 mail sacks that contain about 45 million individual pages, or 600 million scraps. Thus far, the puzzlers are 440 sacks into the process. [Snip] "However many documents I piece together, it'll never cease to amaze and shock me the extent to which friends, colleagues, even husbands and wives, went to betray each other. It shows you what a poison regime it was," she says.
  • Did Brinkmanship Fell Berlin's Wall? Brinkman Said It Did

    10/21/2009 5:14:23 AM PDT · by docbnj · 3 replies · 695+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 21 Oct 2009 | Marcus Walker
    iccardo Ehrman, a veteran Italian foreign correspondent, and Peter Brinkmann, a combative German tabloid reporter, both claim they asked the crucial questions at a news conference on Nov. 9, 1989, that led East German Politburo member Günter Schabowski to make one of the biggest fumbles in modern history.
  • Spymaster takes secrets to grave

    11/09/2006 4:26:54 PM PST · by MadIvan · 31 replies · 1,127+ views
    The Times ^ | November 10, 2006 | Roger Boyes
    Markus Wolf, the sinister East German spymaster who spun his web across Western Europe, has died peacefully in his sleep — taking with him some of the darkest secrets of the Cold War.A solitary red rose was deposited by a sympathiser yesterday on the doorstep of his Berlin apartment block. But few tears were being shed for the 83-year-old Stasi general who dispatched some 30,000 agents to seduce Nato secretaries, buy up politicians, vacuum up secrets and train terrorists. Normally voluble politicians contacted for comment yesterday refused to utter a word, as if Mr Wolf were a demonic presence. “Let...
  • Berlin gets a new Wall, lest the city’s young forget

    10/11/2004 4:03:21 PM PDT · by MadIvan · 6 replies · 476+ views
    The Times ^ | October 12, 2004 | Roger Boyes
    THE Berlin Wall, once the hated symbol of a divided Europe, is being rebuilt in the centre of the German capital, drawing cries of outrage from those who remember the trigger-happy guards and snarling dogs that patrolled its perimeters.Only about 200 yards of concrete is going up — and there are no plans to lay minefields — but the plan has provoked a fierce debate among Berliners about the limits of remembrance. Alexandra Hildebrandt, who is heading the project, knew that her idea would be controversial. One in four Germans recently told opinion pollsters that they favoured a new Berlin...
  • Communist theme park to be set up in Berlin

    02/28/2003 10:35:44 AM PST · by MadIvan · 52 replies · 547+ views
    Ananova ^ | February 28, 2003 | Ananova
    A theme park that lets visitors travel back to in time to communist East Germany is to be set up in Berlin. The GDR Fun Park will be built in the east of the formerly divided city. Visitors will pay about £8 to spend the day watching old news programmes and films before a GDR-style lunch. German newspapers say it is not yet clear whether lunch orders will be met with the traditional GDR reply of: "Ain't got that." Theme park visitors will also be able to ride the infamous Trabant cars. GDR citizens usually had to wait years before...
  • Intel, Rambus wave goodbye on platform as gravy train shunts out

    09/04/2002 4:25:05 AM PDT · by JameRetief · 8 replies · 288+ views
    The Inquirer ^ | 9-4-2002 | Mike Magee
    Intel, Rambus wave goodbye on platform as gravy train shunts out SIS left holding PC Rambus babies. Sniff By Mike Magee: Wednesday 04 September 2002, 10:27 IT'S NOW CLEAR from the latest Intel roadmaps we've seen that the 850E, and by definition Rambus RDRAM memory, is not much longer for the PC planet. Unless, that is, SIS comes to the rescue of the memory type during 2003. The RDRAM gravy train is being shunted out of the INTC station. As we reported yesterday, graphics on the roadmap show that the 850E, which will be validated for 1066 RDRAM come early...