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this could help a lot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDR
you can also look for: "ostalgie", "stasi", "volkspolizei" in the wikipedia, this will give you a general impression how life and culture were in the DDR
interview quote:
| quote: | How did growing up in communist East Berlin shape your personality? Having so many restrictions... How did it shape you positively and negatively?
Even a little chocolate bar was something very special where I grew up. So I appreciate small things still very much and I don't take things for granted. I think this has something to do with the life I am living now. And negatively.... I have some problems with communistic thoughts. I am pretty liberal and sort of all those things. No way in the whole world would I support communism. I am a capitalist. With my employees, as an example, I am always really fair, really easy going like this. |
(http://www.hybridmagazine.com/level/interviews/1201/pvd.shtml)
you can find many interviews with pvd where he states something about his life in the former GDR, but most of us are too young (doesnt matter if born east or west) to tell you something about the spirit in the GDR or the western view towards it...
Last edited by kernkraft on Nov-29-2005 at 11:13
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