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I think JFK said it the best: "freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us."

Bold of you to assume that modern day communists would actually think to open a history book.

The fact that so many people my age think communism is the best route for us to take is absolutely horrifying to me

"Why do Stasi officers make such good taxi drivers? - You get in the car and they already know your name and where you live."-common east german joke at the time.

I got in an arguement with an actual communist the other day. I asked them why the Berlin Wall was built and they really said "To keep the capitalists out of our society..." I never really realized how strong propaganda could be until then. It's wild.

The best thing about the berlin wall is that shortly before the wall was built, the east german leader Walter Ulbricht said: "Nobody has the intention of building a wall"

1989, I was taking German as a language in college at this time. My professor was a German with family on both sides. While learning German, we talked of Germany and the Wall. One morning we walked into class, into a celebration waiting on us. Class that day was a party that we spoke as much German as we could, watched the news and celebrated the tearing down of the Wall. A big impact on my life, and I have never been to Germany.

Watching you dunk on communism, whether it be here or on unsubscribe, has become one of my favorite pastimes.

"Capitalism is the worst system out there, except for all the other ones."

One of the most incredible men I've ever known made it over the wall in 1963 as an 18-year-old. His mother had always told him that if he got the chance to take it and not look back. He was a delivery boy for a hardware store and had two pails of paint he was delivering when he saw a ladder set up at a low point of the wall with another ladder set up of the Western side with not a soul observing anywhere. He climbed to the top, set the paint down and scaled down. Two weeks later he was working as a landscaper in New York, joined the U.S. Army and went on to be brass in Army CID. He was one of the most humble and polite men I've ever known and a true gentleman. One of his sons became a Marine and the other became a Cav Scout. I am lucky to have known him.

why i'm anti-communist: 1. they were literal inches away from ending my family line and 2. [gestures vaguely at a nearby history book]

Why I'm anti communism: My DNA test. They trimmed my family tree very thin.

I visited Berlin in 1975 and crossed into East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie. It was one of the most eye-opening experiences in my life. It was like walking from a technicolor world to one of black and white. East Berlin was stark, cold, unfriendly, and overall not a fun place to be. I spent the day there and when I crossed back to West Berlin, I had seen and experienced all of communism I wanted to ever see. Shortly thereafter I joined the US Army to help make sure that something like that could never happen here. I then spent nearly two years back in West Germany in a tank, thumbing my nose at the Soviets and waiting for WWIII to start, which thanks to us, it never did. Anyone who thinks communism in any form is a good idea is a total and complete idiot.

Berlin wall showed me what "Freedom" is when our older German couple went to Berlin to acquire they're 2 son's an daughter, after wall came down. When they all got back to Oregon, we invited family to Thanksgiving dinner. Ours was outdoor family and had elk meat, salmon, Lin cod along with turkey dinner. Daughter sees all the food an never imagine so much, an such variety of food? After minutes they are all crying. My mom starts to cry, then my sister. I ask dad, is it all this food making them cry? Partly, but I think it's our Freedom that gives us a chance to have such a table for Thanksgiving!

Anti-communist propaganda? That's a weird way to spell The Truth.

I have a friend that lives in Brownwood Tx. Auto tech.

“That’s not real communism” is the weakest excuse to justify communism

I met a lady from East Berlin who was eleven when the wall came down and her dad was a guard in one of the towers along the wall. Doing that destroyed him mentally. She told me that if he did not shoot people trying to escape, the secret police would have disappeared him and his family. That was standard operating procedure for disobedient guards, and her father said a couple of people he worked with at the time disappeared. Here one day, gone the next. I will never understand how people can’t look at the Soviet flag and feel the same disdain and disgust as when looking at the Nazi Germany flag.

The hot air balloon bit is flat out amazing and truly impressive...to build one big enough to lift eight people meant that thing was huge.