My lasting memory of a jaunt to the East was stopping at a rest place on the transit Autobahn (having avoided the potholes, although they were democratically dug Peoples' Potholes). A young East German lad was just dying to have a look at my shiny new Manta, as ten year-old lads tend to do. His dad leapt up and just dragged him away, in case he was contaminated with Western imperialism. If they were spotted chatting, I would've been chucked back over the border after being fined (hard currency only, please), but they would've got a knock on the door later. It was truly a socialist paradise.
Oooh, and I did queue up for a Peoples' Burger with the army cadets at the burger van. I'm happy to report that Red Army squaddies are just as spotty and gormless as our own.
Are we all closet radio 4 listeners. I heard the series too. I preferred Lenny Henry’s five excerpts from his book a few weeks back though
Wasn’t there 2 series of Deutschland. Think the other one might have been 87 something or other. I watched the 1st one.
I’m in Berlin now. Near Bornholmer Brücke.. I pass the old wall border all the time . Because the Vietnam restaurant is better than the other one side . Too many people in town now. Parties everywhere... Still the people in the east get paid less . There is discrimination of the east people still exists. My girlfriend is from the east. She says The tv shows a reality. That is very different from her reality growing up.... but now she has no banana shortage...so that’s good.
[QUOTE="dubsurftones, post: 1634883, .. but now she has no banana shortage...so that’s good.[/QUOTE] I'm amazed this bit hasn't resulted in a comment!
I'm amazed this bit hasn't resulted in a comment![/QUOTE] So am I ,but the usuals have probably skipped the sensible topic
Very late to the party but I’ve just listened to the first two episodes of this. Fascinating and frightening in equal measure.
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