Soviet cogitations: 17
Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 06 Jul 2013, 16:25 New Comrade (Say hi & be nice to me!) Yami wrote: They were certainly not happy to have them. If the GDR hadn't built the wall, the West may well have done something similar. In fact, when the wall was built there was not one whit of objection from President Kennedy: it suited him fine. It was only decades later that Reagan spuriously demanded that the wall be torn down.
They certainly were happy to have them and continued to pay the East German government hard currency to free their political prisoners.
The socialists in the East, when they were short of dollars would sell their endless supply of political prisoners. I'm not knocking that as I'm sure the men and women freed were happy about it. Can you provide a link to the plan for the West German government to build a wall? Comrade Gulper wrote: This is the correct answer. Also everyone who managed to "escape" from the GDR got a 100 marks as a "welcome gift". Which gave access to more eagerly-desired Western goods than most Easterners ever managed to assemble before 1989. "Don't know why i'm still surprised with this shit anyway." - Loz
The Stasi was the most evil and pervasive agency ever as they gathered everyone's data, unlike the good ol' West, where privacy is respected.
Seriously, the DDR should have been reformed rather than destroyed as the political system felt austere rather than the organic expression of the working class. Yami wrote: All these benefits in the West you mention are being rolled, unsurprisingly after the threat of socialism receeded. The living standards enjoyed by those in the past will never come back unless the system is changed. |
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