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i do understand. so, i suppose government let people do this tearing down that freaky wall, to release all that incredible frustration, that had built up. it's also a very poor part of germany, so they saved spendings, hehe. berlin has great people. straight, acidly honest, and very tolerant. i love it! :heart: i need to go back so badly!!! :lol:

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and it may never have been about one of those systems merely winning over the other. @ ari: i'm not sure, if you are aware of the chronological happenings of those days. when the people started hammering down the wall in berlin, the iron curtain had already fallen. nobody asked them to, but nobody forbid their actions either. it started in august 1989 in eastern germany in leipzig, it started in the prague spring in the sixties, it started, when the people of poland formed solidarnosz and were already an island within the communist countries in 1989. gorbachev plays a major role, it's very complex.

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it showed, that incredible things are possible, if there is enough people going together and peacefully so. i find it a bit strange, how unpolitical most of this board's kids seem to be. lot's of sarcasm, which i guess is a means of coping with the emotional difficulties one has to deal with while growing up in this rather bizarre world of ours. but there is hardly any action, which is sad. one tends to forget, how much power each and everyone does have, when going together for a sensible cause. and i guess, you all know, that there are some very sensible causes and it would be great if people instead of moaning and being sarcastic about whatever, if they would put their energies into let's say the ecological challenges, that we face globally. or the problems of poverty. go work for your local food bank , go demonstrate for topics which you think are good, and infect other people around with your enthusiasm, or whatever. that's what the happenings around the fall of the wall tell anyone, who want's to listen. thanks chuck for putting it up. btw, i'm german, and i remember those days very well. and there are no words for the emotions i feel, when i see those days again. i've seen the obsceneties of old eastern germany myself, and i lived in berlin a couple of years after the iron curtain's fall, and met people who went to jail for their and their fellow peoples' freedom, they were quiet and amazing, and there was NO sarcasm in them. and do it with humour, kids, never forget that. but do it. change things, don't just sit at your pc's and be sarcastic and smug and self- pitied. i know, that feels cool for a while, but it shouldn't be the end of your developement as human beings, non? :)

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