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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 12, 2019 12:57:58 GMT -5
And that's what they wanted to do in the EP, yet they failed since they have all different views on certain aspects. So, there might be a chance that they don't cooperate.
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Post by Tim on Aug 12, 2019 23:53:17 GMT -5
Anyway, Jana, do you have any plans to honour the anniversary when it comes?
Out of all of us, you were the only one actually there (some of the posters here weren't even born yet).
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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 13, 2019 12:36:00 GMT -5
Maybe with some friends who are also old enough to have enjoyed it. To be honest, I have no idea yet, though it's not so far away anymore.
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Post by Tim on Aug 13, 2019 16:10:55 GMT -5
Maybe with some friends who are also old enough to have enjoyed it. To be honest, I have no idea yet, though it's not so far away anymore.
Nope, it's this coming November, I believe.
I remember that Honecker was ousted in October of '89, and Krenz was in charge when the Wall came down a few weeks later.
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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 13, 2019 16:41:19 GMT -5
Yeah, we normally celebrated the 40th anniversary of the GDR (October 7) and four weeks later, the wall came down. It's November 9 which is a very historical day for us. 1918, 1923, 1938 and 1989.
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Post by Tim on Aug 13, 2019 18:33:19 GMT -5
Yeah, we normally celebrated the 40th anniversary of the GDR (October 7) and four weeks later, the wall came down. I thought so.
I remember watching the 40th Anniversary of the GDR. Little did they know that it would be the last one.
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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 14, 2019 7:40:47 GMT -5
I always tell it this way: Our school year started in September, always, and we started civics back then and two months later, the state was gone.
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Post by Tim on Aug 14, 2019 23:21:38 GMT -5
I always tell it this way: Our school year started in September, always, and we started civics back then and two months later, the state was gone.
I'm guessing that your school continued. Of course, it was a different world they were heading into.
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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 15, 2019 11:04:17 GMT -5
It did but nearly with a year free since our teachers didn't know what to do. All had changed. It went on more the following school year.
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Post by Tim on Aug 15, 2019 12:00:13 GMT -5
I envy you, Jana. You were there, when all this was happening, when history was being made.
I saw it all on television, but it's just not the same.
In hindsight, the leaders of the GDR were smart to realize that the game was up. Only one East European leader, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, of Romania, tried to stop the demonstrations by force. It didn't end well for either of them.
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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 15, 2019 16:50:13 GMT -5
Yet still, I was only a teen. Sure, I was there and seen it also on TV and all, yet I remember we went on a shopping trip to the West (Bebra/Hessen) after the wall came down and I was so tired that I fell asleep in a railway station. This was so exciting with exploring all new things and the new money as well.
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Post by Tim on Aug 15, 2019 17:03:48 GMT -5
The West must have been a whole new world for you.
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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 16, 2019 9:40:23 GMT -5
Being there, yes but my aunt had already sent packages to us with west stuff and old clothes from my cousins. The first impressions were crazy, though not so different with alcohol and smoking. Anyway, the shopping was totally different. You could buy all you wanted and never had to wait in a queue for special things, like it was in the GDR.
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Post by Tim on Aug 16, 2019 11:13:17 GMT -5
Being there, yes but my aunt had already sent packages to us with west stuff and old clothes from my cousins. The first impressions were crazy, though not so different with alcohol and smoking. Anyway, the shopping was totally different. You could buy all you wanted and never had to wait in a queue for special things, like it was in the GDR.
I remember seeing news footage of people in communist countries lining up to buy things. Must have taken hours.
And then suddenly they could buy what they wanted, no more line-ups.
And what were those little cars they had. Trabi's, or something like that.
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Post by Squad 51 on Aug 16, 2019 15:53:16 GMT -5
We didn't have one, just our neighbors at that time and they drove a Wartburg (like the castle). We walked a lot and biked as well. As for the queues, yeah, we always had to be prepared for anything. You never knew what was avaiable at the moment. It could be exotic fruits, a new record and so on. Never walk out without a bag.
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