Cool man, thx for this great cut. To be continued...

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your time Karsten! Yes, to be continued 😁

@BC_36

3 жыл бұрын

Any evidence remain of secret tunnelling under the wall?

@spidyman8853

3 жыл бұрын

Karsten Friedemann I visited East Berlin DDR 1980 to 1983. It was not bad for me as young child. It was the best time for me. Great city for bicycles. Used my bicycle every day (except in winter). I also briefly visited DDR in 1970 - 73 but I was a kinder and so not much memory there. As for my German language, I have totally forgotten it LOL. What I liked about DDR was, every one had a job, every one had a home, No crimes, No homelessness in the streets. You had time for your family. Things were affordable not expensive. The bad things were, you cannot fly except to eastern blocks, cannot find every food in supermarket as shelves were pretty much empty. As you mentioned buying car was a long wait. However, you had good transport system.

@hueaway

2 жыл бұрын

@@spidyman8853 and, apart from that, people usually forget to speak about how disappointed East Berliners were when they realized the salaries in West Berlin were so low when compared to the ones in the east side of the wall.

@nagaslrac

2 жыл бұрын

A well told and fascinating story, Mr. Friedemann. Thank you, from Australia.

My father served for 2 years in the army of URRS in Eastern Berlin. He even saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.I love him he told me a lot of stories from there.❤

Great video. I was in the US Air Force in West Berlin from ‘82 to ‘84. Worked at Teufelsberg. Lived off base in Schoneberg. As an Allied military member, I was allowed access to visit East Berlin, while in uniform. It did not compare to West Berlin by any means. But the shop and restaurant workers were very kind and helpful. Whenever we ate there, we would leave a 100 east mark tip for the waitress.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, what a story! Thank you for sharing. I can’t imagine how thankful the waitress must have been, that‘s awesome! 🙏🏽

@news_internationale2035

3 жыл бұрын

Going to any country can be amazing. Many people think Canada is a clone of the USA and it is not.

@juicyfruit4378

Жыл бұрын

@@news_internationale2035 And Canada has what to do with East Germany? And now the crickets begin to chirp…..

@news_internationale2035

Жыл бұрын

@@juicyfruit4378 Are you a сhаt bоt? Do you understand what an analogy is or not?

@A_10_PaAng_111

Жыл бұрын

​​@@news_internationale2035've been to Canada. It's just a continuation of the USA. Quebec City and Montreal might have a European touch to it but Western Canada is all USA.

Really enjoyed this video. Karsten’s English is amazing - most of my Berlin family doesn’t speak a word of English. . My family was divided by the wall. My dad and his family lived in Charlottenburg, but the rest of their family lived in the East. We visited in 1972 to see my grandparents and we went to East Berlin for a day to see family. I was five and had a bright emerald green coat with a fake fur collar. My mum said that people in the East literally stopped to stare at the blond curly haired girl with the green coat. My grandparents were embarrassed by the attention. 😂

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Haha very cool story!! 😁 Thank you for sharing and watching 😊

It’s very cool to find your video! Thank you for posting it!! I was a US Army Military Policeman in Berlin from 1985-1988. I did patrol duty all over the city and along the wall and for a while I worked on the duty train. I helped with security for President Reagan when he gave his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate. I often thought about the people in the East and wondered about them and what they thought....it’s really interesting to hear him talk about it. His comment about the Walkman brought back memories....I used to buy Walkmans and trade them to the Soviet guards at the duty train checkpoints for their hats or uniform pins...even got a watch from one of them for a copy of a playboy magazine. We told the passengers on the train when we left Berlin to travel through East Germany...”We are now entering East Germany...please set your watches back 100 years.” It was sad to see the differences in how they lived. I have not been back since the wall came down but I hope to go someday to experience it without the wall.

@stevenwgoode

2 жыл бұрын

I travelled on the duty train twice in the late 1980s. I was stationed at Field Station Augsburg, and was TDY to Field Station Berlin.

I was in the US Army station in West Germany from 1983-1985. I went on several tours to East Berlin. I bought some porcelain for my mom at a nice shop for pennies. I stuffed my pockets with east marks that I bought in west germany. If you exchanged dollars for east marks in east germany you received 1 for 1. A dollar at the time was around 4 west marks per dollar x 10 so you could get 40 east marks for a dollar. I felt like a rich man. When we traveled around the city the russian army put followers on our tail. They followed our every move. I remember heckling them, calling them names to try and get a response. They just stared blankly at us. At the end of the day I gave all my remaining east marks to a woman pushing a baby carriage. She couldnt believe I was doing this, and she started sobbing. I've often wondered whatever happened to her and her child. I came back to Berlin when the wall was coming down and I sat on the top of the pipe that encircled the top of the wall and pounded on it with a hammer. It was a wonderful day to see all the smiling face on the east side of the wall yelling at the east german police. I'll never forget it.

@alphadavid1640

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.😁

Very interesting. I was in the USAF stationed in West Germany in the 1980’s and made two trips to East Berlin. Fascinating place. Ate dinner in restaurant at top of Hotel Stadt Berlin and 1984 World Cup game was on TV. Tipped the waiter 150 Ost Marks.

I live in the UK, this video was premiered, so it says, 19-Aug-2020. A week later, I was in the same place and walked the length of the wall that you showed, as well as the East Side Gallery and a few other places too. This is really interesting and adds to the stories on the noticeboards along Bernauerstrasse. I was lucky enough to gain entry to the museum across the road from the watchtower too, a holiday I will not forget

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Wow!! That’s amazing, thank you for sharing ☺️ Glad it was able to add to the story 😁

I have spent a LOT of time in Berlin, and I know the city very well. It ranks as one of my favorite of all cities. During long visits to Berlin, I lived in areas that were behind the Berliner Mauer ... mainly Pankow and Prinzlauer Berg. One of the first places I took my wife for her first trip to Germany was the Berlin Wall Memorial along Bernauerstraße at Nord Bahnhof, where you begin this video. We were there several hours. She was so affected by what she saw and I explained to her that she cried as we left the visitors center.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Wow so you have a lot of memories from Berlin, thank you for sharing! ☺️

@1polonium210

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult Ja, ich habe viele Erinnerungen. Alle sind gut. Danke für dein Video!

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

@@1polonium210 Das ist sehr schön! ☺️ Danke, dass du dir die Zeit genommen hast es dir anzuschauen! Freut mich sehr, dass es dir gefällt 😊

@1polonium210

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult Vielen Dank, mein Freund! Ich wünsche dir alles Gute!

@Mark-yy2py

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear that. I spent a lot time in West Berlin in the 1980s. So different.

Great video! I was stationed at Tempelhof 88-92, lived off-base in a flat on the Ku’Damm. I went to the East many times for cultural events. Even saw Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker with the Bolshoi ballet there, which was amazing. The Ossi’s never initiated conversation (understandably due to the Stasi) but were always respectful in their response if I did before the Wende, after it they had no issue speaking up at all. Café Moscow in Alexanderplatz was a great place to people watch. Living there in that time was amazing, when Berlin was briefly the center of the universe. This video brought back many happy memories from my 20s, many thanks for that. Ich vermisse Berliner Currywurst!

I was born two years before the wall came down i got to see the wall come down when i was 2 years old on American tv in milwaukee wisconsin usa

When I was in west Germany/West Berlin in the 1980s, the DDR would call the wall the “Anti-fascist protection barrier”.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

It was a really interessting time period for sure, crazy that all of this existed.. Thank you for your comment and for sharing this!

@Mark-yy2py

3 жыл бұрын

@Awawawa CM internationally supervised elections? Come on! You mean the same way Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary had free and fair elections? If he had his way, Stalin would have wanted the entire European continent under his thumb.

@Mark-yy2py

3 жыл бұрын

@Awawawa CM Stalin had no intention of leaving eastern Germany. Only after he died did the Soviets floated the idea-Malenkov and even Beria wanted Germany neutral, but by that time, the cement has dried and been set. The Cold War was in full swing.

@cet262

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mark-yy2py false, please look up Stalin’s note

@Mark-yy2py

3 жыл бұрын

@@cet262 I don’t know what year you were born but I was actually there and you actually heard it on DDR television.

Good Video. I am very interested in the history of GDR/DDR and the Berlin Wall. Fascinating. I live in the US. Most people in the US do not have any idea of the real history. They do not even understand where the Berlin wall is located. Typical American only knows of Checkpoint Charlie but could not tell you where it was or what it was. Love the VW. Peace

I’d love to hear/watch more about this. Great video and extremely interesting stories from Karsten. Can’t wait to go back to Berlin!

@SecretTougeCult

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! 😊

Very interesting video. It's always great to hear first hand experiences from people. We went to Berlin 2 years ago. So much history that it's hard to take it in with one trip.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more, there is so much to see, hear and learn about! Thank you for watching 😊

This is a really well made video finished to a very high standard. Very informative and I look forward to part 2! Though i'm no city lover i've been to Berlin many times as I was fascinated by it's history but above all, found it so easy and relaxing to walk around.....so I just kept going back! As you said, it's impossible to see all of Berlin in a few days. I still want to visit Tempelhof Airport and also the Glienicke Bridge.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and your amazing feedback!! Berlin is a truly special place 😊

Very good video and very interesting to hear Karsten’s memories of the DDR times.

Im living now in Berlin. Still amazing place because of its historical areas

@markhall6306

2 жыл бұрын

Der volks tower 😎

That was really cool! Really enjoyed watching this. Looking forward to seeing more

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! You‘ve got a nice channel as well, keep it up :)

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

btw, there is a completely new video series happening in a few days! Super excited for the change and I would love to have your feedback once the new videos go up! 😁

@Thegrillingdude

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult cool, looking forward to it. I’d be happy to give feedback

I am so curious about East Germany. I was a little kid when the wall fell and it was one of my first political memories. Thanks for the video - subbed! I can't wait to return to Germany.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Run The Atlas Wow really?? Did you grow up in Germany? Thank you, you‘ve got a new sub as well 🤩

@shieldsluck1969

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult "Did you grow up in Germany?" He didn't. After all, Germany is not stingy with passports or residence visas. Accordingly, Run The Atlas lives outside "Schengen" Europe (or Switzerland). Or why does he want to see Germany again? Obviously it is too far away for him (or her). And Germans don't move away from places with a functioning welfare system (usually). Greetings.

Great video. Thanks!

Excellent video 😎 glad to see they have a fence to protect the remaining part of the wall . I have a bit from the wall I got 1 year before the fall . @26:47 2 people watching the wall ...and watching each other in case one of them tried to go over to the west

Thanks this is really great video & I look forward to see more of Berlin. Special thanks to Karsten.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video, there will be more of Berlin with Karsten this summer 😊

I love Berlin! I have visited many times from the USA and the city is loaded with history. No joke it would take you a year to see everything.

@SecretTougeCult

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome Mike! Couldn’t agree more, the city has so much to discover, very fun.

@SecretTougeCult

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@Mike-zb3zz

2 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult I am a member of Berliner Unterwelten e.V. as well.

@SecretTougeCult

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mike-zb3zz Nice! Never been there but looks very interesting. Do you think it would be possible to film a documentary there in the future?

@Mike-zb3zz

2 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult It might be> I would suggest that you talk to Sascha Keil at Berliner Unterwelten e.V. He is one of the officers. Mention that you had talked to me, Michael Florio in Florida, and tell him about your videos. If you do get to make a video let me know and if you can mention my name that would be cool. After everything opens up after COVID I'd love to take a trip to Berlin. Sascha been asking me to come and visit.

East Berlin and Eastern Bloc nations was cheaper than the Western Bloc, even today I find former Warsaw Pact Nations (including former East Germany and East Berlin), the cost of living price in former East Germany is overall cheaper than the West side of Germany

Well done! Very informative.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! 😊

I enjoyed this video very much. My dream is one day to live in Berlin for at least a year so I can experience it in all four seasons. I live in the US now. Back in the 1970's, I was an exchange student for one summer in Southern Germany, never got to Berlin, though. I do speak some German. It would've been interesting to visit East Germany prior to 1989 to see how it felt, but Karsten does a good job helping us understand. Vielen Dank, Karsten!

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!! 🙏🏽

You can only love something or someone if you're free to leave.

In East Berlin there a tall tower and a large ball almost at the top, we were told it has radio and TV transmission, we were also told the Germans called it The Tower of Hope, because when the sun hit it just right you can see a giant Cross, I saw it and got a photo of it! The Germans/Russians? Tried sandblasting and repainting the ball, but the cross kept coming back!

The only advertisement i saw when I first walked in the "Alexanderplatz" was "Fluge nach Amerika".... flights to America! I had to laugh!

Very interesting, would love to go to Berlin one day and see this

@SecretTougeCult

2 жыл бұрын

It’s definitely worth a trip! Thank you for watching 😊

Nice opening shot of the East Side Gallery.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much and thank you for watching! 😊

Very interesting. It‘s better to hear the story of the real contemporary witnesses than from 0815 documentary

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more! It was very interesting to film this too 😊

I remember when the Berlin wall came down it wasn't that big of a deal in the U.S. It didn't directly affect people in the U.S. However, the collapse of the USSR a few years later did affect people in the U.S. One way is the U.S. didn't need as much of a military, so some military bases in the U.S. were closed or consolidated.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing this! Very interesting to hear that 🙏🏽

We live in Stuttgart in 1985-88. Absolutely beautiful country ❤. I hope before I die. I will get 1 more chance to see where my Grandparents lived, before coming to the USA 🇺🇸!

Great tour. Props to Karsten.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Francisco! ☺️ Yes, Karsten has a lot to tell and I‘m glad he wants to share his Stories with all of us 🙏🏽

@FranciscoSilva-mk9tu

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult hope you can post more videos on this subject

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

@@FranciscoSilva-mk9tu We definitely will, Karsten has a lot more to tell! 😊 Once the Lockdown is over with next year, we‘ll probably start filming towards summer again. If you like, you can Subscribe and Click the Bell to be notified once the new Travel / East Germany videos drop 😁

Its nice to see housing back then..and those houses

@SecretTougeCult

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! :)

I was in the British Army in Fallingbostel and we went to Berlin for a trip and along the corridor to berlin there were Soviet Guards at each station, if they caught you taking photos they would board the train and open your camera at the back. We went to East berlin and Visted a Soviet War memorial and i was thirsty and tried to get a can of Coca Cola and they didnt have any, all they sold was diluted orange juice. Later i did the Berlin marathon in 1984 started at the wall by the Reichstag and around west Berlin. Thank goodness the wall came down and the Country was reunited.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing, really interessting! 🙏🏽

Berlin is a great historical city

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, there is so much rich history and culture in Berlin. So much to explore and find out 🙏🏽

What park was this shot in?

Thanks for the video. Spending only 10% of your salary on rent sounds amazing when I spend half my salary just on that. But as I understand the issue in the Eastern bloc was never money but the lack of things to buy. It doesn't help to have a lot of money if you can't really use it for anything. If prices were allowed to be free things would be very expensive but because of price controls you instead got severe shortages of almost everything. That is why they tried to get Western things even if the prices were much higher.

My mother is from Germany but born in the US, her family had to go back to Germany because Hitler ordered all German's back... after WW2 she came back to the US as a child but never returned and never had a desire to because of what became of Germany, it broke her heart as a child.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

It is really sad to see what happened back then. Thankfully that is all over now. Thank you for sharing this story! 🙏🏽

Near where JFK made his famous "I am a jelly doughnut" speech?

@stevenwgoode

2 жыл бұрын

"Ich bin ein Berliner!"

Wow, I was there 1980 to 1983. It wasn't bad.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Not everything was bad, there are a lot of positive memories that Karsten has as well 😊

@Bellasie1

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult I jump in here hoping that you and Karsten will read my comment. Unlike most people here, I didn't stay long in Berlin back in the day, rather just went through as part of a long trip by train from China to Paris with my high school in 1986. However we did go through the city and a couple of us in the group decided to stay in West Berlin overnight. Our experience was exceptional especially as youngsters, because we had spent 2 months in Beijing (studying Chinese at Summer uni) and were going back to our country - France - through the Eastern block by rail. Even adults in the West, back then, didn't travel as much as now, let alone in communist territory. So, in that context, we came into Berlin from the East, having been in the Eastern block for 2 months and then traveled through China, Mongolia, the USSR, Poland and then finally East Germany before crossing the border back to West Berlin at Friedrichstraße. Despite the fact the whole trip was exceptional, that time spent in East and West Berlin is very special to me. It was indeed a very special atmosphere, on both sides, quite impossible to describe. Definitely something in the air that is long gone. In my mind, I can still see the wall as it was where I saw it and the no man's land gap and watchtower as if it were now. In the West we even got to climb on platforms to get a peak of the Eastern part at tourist spots while approaching the wall in the East wasn't a good idea. I remember being very impressed by the monuments in Mitte, probably even more impressive because of all the surrounding grayness, and once in West Berlin, it was again a fascinating atmosphere, like an intense, compressed sense of freedom unseen in any other Western European city, mind-blowing experience for a teenager (no drugs by the way, just pure fascination). For that reason, I have this weird feeling to really relate to what Karsten says... quite fascinating when I reflect on how brief my sojourn was. I've returned to Berlin since then, a city dear to my heart forever. When I'm there, I'm also in awe that going from East to West is so easy, even for me, a complete foreigner not even familiar with the city. I believe the wall left a strong impression on whoever experienced it. Also, my memory of all the people supposedly in "enemy" territory back then (the cold war was no joke) is one of amazing people, very warm, and how frustrating it was that communication with them was restricted in some countries (particularly the USSR) and always problematic (as we knew - were briefed - they were being watched). Thank you so much for a great video. I didn't know your channel but your work is so good I'm subscribing right now. May peace and freedom prevail.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bellasie1 I am absolutely speechless! First of all thank you so much for watching and leaving such a vivid memory of yours as a comment below this video ❤️ I can’t imagine what it must have been like seeing everything in person when all this was still a reality. Even nowadays you can feel a very special vibe when going to where the wall once stood. It‘s a mix of fascination, thankfulness that this is not a reality anymore and a touch of depressing weight that still floats around that area. Absolutely crazy.. Thank you for subscribing my friend! There will be more episodes coming in the future with Karsten on this topic, once I am back in Germany for vacation 😊 Have a great 🍀

@Bellasie1

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult Thank YOU very much for such a prompt and kind reply and yes indeed it still lingers in the air wherever tragedy once struck. The mixed feelings were already there, in fact, I felt very uneasy when I then visited the wall (from the Western side of course), knowing it was only random that I could have so easily gone through the border a bit earlier that day from East to West [one hour + wait still], when the people on the other side had to risk their life to be standing where I was. I personally sort of avoided seeing the wall for the remainder of the stay, because it was indeed a very sad sight. Also, seeing the TV tower from EVERYWHERE above the skyline was a reminder of being trapped in the Eastern block, i.e. of the imminence of (perceived) danger. Those were times when we regularly feared that a nuclear war would start... The mix of freedom and the wall all around the "free West Berlin"(!?), plus the fear of a possible invasion made for a very adventurous vibe, especially for the 15 y.o. that I was. You might have watched it, but this quick documentary is not to be missed and explains how the wall worked kzread.info/dash/bejne/gauF1bazd87Imbw.html. I believe the first part actually shows a reconstitution of the very place you visited near the cemetery as it looked back in the day. I will make sure to watch your videos! Have a great Spring break too! Tschüß!

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bellasie1 Absolutely incredible to hear this all from someone who was actually there, thank you very much for sharing! 🙏🏽 I‘ll make sure to watch the documentary, have a great spring break too! Machs gut 😊

Interesting film, thank you. I hope all Germans fully realize what happened with the division of Germany after WWII, the inner German border between West and East Germany and of course the Berlin Wall. The USSR and the UK, France, the US, agreed to covertly punish Germany with these divisions. A punishment that lasted for almost 30 years with the Berlin Wall. Germany was going to pay a severe price for it's actions in WWII and they did. Hopefully Germany learned the lesson being taught and will never again go to war with the world.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! 😊

@stevenobrien557

18 күн бұрын

Um... no.

St Mary’s anyone?

Calling ourselves "free" is a little bit too much, in my opinion. I mean, nowadays I can't even dream of buying myself a property. And even if I did start paying for a flat, I'd most likely stay the next 30 years trying to pay it off. It's crazy to me that there are still countries that call themselves "developed" and don't provide their citizens with free health care, free education and free kindergarten. Keeping 2 jobs just to make the ends meet at the end of the month is not what I call freedom. But hey, that's just my opinion.

@seanoconnor1478

2 жыл бұрын

I guess people still don't understand nothing is "free"

@hueaway

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanoconnor1478 maybe "free" for you is different than "free" for me. I pay my taxes and get free healthcare, free schooling, etc. Does it mean doctors here work for free? No. We just use the taxes to provide some basic rights to the population, rights that are not even close to what I would call sufficient, but still, here at least you won't be forced to live under a bridge because of hospital bills.

@seanoconnor1478

2 жыл бұрын

@@hueaway we disagree I guess, you have the right to freedom. Nothing more, people need to succeed or fail based on merit. I don't want to pay for your school degree that I didn't get. It's a choice, and if choices don't have consequences we are doomed. I am a tradesman, it's a choice I made and have been happy with. Why should government forcibly take my money to pay for your degree?

@hueaway

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanoconnor1478 what do you mean by "right to freedom"? and freedom to whom?

@seanoconnor1478

2 жыл бұрын

The inalienable right to pursue happiness as you see fit. We are all born with this right.

My dad liked to talk about a telephone line that the Communists set up for those wanting to cross the wall. The number was 999 (nein nein nein).

Would be great to one day watch a video like this about the Israeli wall

Thank You Jesus For Uniting East And West Germany In Jesus Name Amen

@jumpinjohnnyruss

5 ай бұрын

Yuck. Do you thank him for the bad things, too?

What kind of dirt do these folks have on Stasi operatives and informants?

I heard it was very nationalistic. Despite the economic shortcomings, everyone felt like apart of a bigger team, and according to some people I know, it was pretty good in terms of mental health compared to now.

@SecretTougeCult

3 жыл бұрын

That is actually true too! A lot of people I talked to over here said the same thing 😊

@shieldsluck1969

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean, it was very nationalistic? 1989 or before? Where did you get this information. I never noticed that.

@petebondurant58

3 жыл бұрын

@@shieldsluck1969 You can watch NVA (Nationale Volksarmee) videos on KZread. That was the army of the DDR. Very Prussian. Very nationalistic.

@petebondurant58

3 жыл бұрын

@@SecretTougeCult Nostalgia has a tendency to cloud one's mind, the way a fog clouds the eyes.

@Bellasie1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes being nationalistic was a way to show they believed in their political system, in other words, a subliminal way to show they were not candidates to defection. So it was a good idea to at least fake it. ;-) It avoided them a lot of unwanted attention by the stasi and prevented denunciation by the politically correct. Nowadays, it's the other way around.

Just awful. Those poor people imprisoned in their country. Erich Honecker can rot in hell.

I worked in DDR in 1987 for more than a week. Again came back to East Berlin in 1989. To be there was a the best time of my life. GDR was a great country but not perfect. Still am a very dedicated communist!