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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … _2]:shakes head:
*Will be interesting to watch this unfold. I knew a gal from Berlin about 4 years ago. No longer in touch, but she mentioned similar tensions. What are the chances this could lead to civil war? I hope it doesn't...but can't help wondering.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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Yes, I've been hearing similar things for years, hasn't gone as smoothly as some would like.
It almost seems as though the Westerners were expecting all these grateful ex-commies to do menial jobs and the Easterners were expecting to chuck socialist government and embrace capitalism and freedom. They both got screwed on the deal.
We never should've let that Iron Curtain go up...
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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Until a generation has come to pass and the stigma of the wall is but a blur in history those that are alive will always long for the days of old no matter how bad they were for they resist change.
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I believe it's exaggerated. Truth is the Bundesestablishment is growing ever less popular overall because of its neoliberalist economical agenda and PC immigration policy. It just isn't as apparent on the surface in the west since the east was never subjected to the same multi-culturalist brainwashing for generations. I mean, in Germany, France and Switzerland they even put people in prison for doubting the existence of certain historical features of WWII, like the gas chambers. Freedom of speech?
You could perhaps interpret the ongoing nagging between east and west as a widening rift, but I think very few would actually want the wall back. You'd find those people on the extreme left perhaps, not among the real opposition, or at least not in any form that will last. To me it smacks of trumped-up excuses on part of the Bonn establishment.
As the east Germans get ever more westernized and economically integrated this kind of quarrel will blow away like so much wind.
I wouldn't say the antipathy doesn't exist, it does. It's just not politically pivotal.
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