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You really have no clue...and that's not meant as demeaning. I grew up in a former Communist country, and left when I was 16 for the US and I remember everything! The big wigs in the Central Committee decided 10 yrs before the end of the system that the president had to die (1989). The pigs divided the country's navy and other means if financial gold pots as though they earned these - they stole everything and left the new govts to beg for financial help from the free countries.

@trueman mann My Country was very prosperous from 1945 until 1970, then two socialist presidents came with their progressive reforms during 10 years. 40 years later the Country is still struggling with poverty, violence and corruption produce by those "socialist reforms". I know very well what Socialism is !

@trueman mann Rather presumptuous of you Trueman! Wow.

What are you talking about, what an ignorant fool you are.

@trueman mann You needn't be shot to know it hurts. The suffering caused by communism is entirely evident. Unless you have an agenda, that is.

"tremendous efforts of the West to underline the DDR"-you mean that the ´West´ forced 3 millions of East Germans to leave all what they had on the eastern side and walk to West Germany with nothing?

I visited East Berlin in 1970-a quarter century after the end of the war. There was so little traffic in the streets and you could actually hear the birds chirping. By comparison the western sector was teaming with activity and lots of noise. While the rubble had been cleares, so many buildings had only walls to show where homes once stood. I can still see a very large tree growing in the middle of what once had been a row house. And armed East German soldiers in their guard towers just a few feet from me. And, yes, visitors had to buy 5DM, almost like an admission fee, to get in. But you couldn't keep it and leave with any East German money, so you tried to spend it or donate it.

Konigsberg im Ostprussie. It appears to have been quite an idyllic place before the madness of the 30s and 40s which brought it to its tragic fate. I didn't realise it until fairly recently,but Stalin must have played a blinder of a game of hardball at Yalta and Potsdam to get the borders of both the USSR and Poland shifted westwards like that,whether it be for the purpose of merely putting more buffer land between Moscow and the countries to the West or part of a greater game of expansionism,or both. It's said when Russian soldiers saw it they questioned why Germany went to war against them when they had all that already.

Nothing wrong with making turist atractions.

SuperOldShows It is good that they make money on tourism now,just to show how evil the human race is and was .

@Mr and Mrs. Smith evidently

Mr and Mrs. Smith oh ok it doesn’t matter anyways