These recent videos full of footage this account has posted in regard to the fall of European communism in the late 80's/early 90's have been absolutely phenomenal and a true blessing for history geeks. Please keep posting things like this, they're positively fascinating!
I first visited in December 2007 ( so 18 years after this was filmed ). The city centre was already much revived, with pedestrianised shopping streets with new big shopping malls. They weren't replacing anything old, so it appears that most of the centre around the old town square had not been rebuilt after the war. Now, another 17 years later, the remaining vacant lots have all been developed. While obviously not as prosperous as Munich or the nicer parts of Berlin, there's still been a huge improvement since I was first there. And lots of cyclists. When I come back here to Prague, it's so obvious that *nobody* cycles here
The part of the video where the young guy looked over the wall was the local Stasi-HQ (51.06644934199581, 13.783988797277846). Putin didn't work for the Stasi. He worked for the KGB. They had their HQ across the street in one of the neat villas in that quarter of the city.
At that very moment, only Romania and Albania still had old style, genuine Communist leaderships. Romania's dictator run away 3 days later, when 800.000 people gathered for protests in the center of Bucharest, the capital. The city's center was already blocked since Dec 21, under siege from dictator's boys, but on the morning of Dec 22, about 800.000 people came to the rescue of the initial few protesters.
I think it's not earth but coal, which is stored in that basement. While in west Germany most houses were heated by oil or even gas already, east Germany mostly used coal. Because of the coal and also 2 stroke engines the air quality in most east German cities was absolutely horrible, as seen by the thick blue smoke above the river.
How miserable. Looks exactly like some third world country in the mid fifties. And my Wife was Ukrainian and she said that they lived _very well_ in the East Germany! Jesas. 😱
These recent videos full of footage this account has posted in regard to the fall of European communism in the late 80's/early 90's have been absolutely phenomenal and a true blessing for history geeks. Please keep posting things like this, they're positively fascinating!
Thanks for this video! Good stuff.
I first visited in December 2007 ( so 18 years after this was filmed ). The city centre was already much revived, with pedestrianised shopping streets with new big shopping malls. They weren't replacing anything old, so it appears that most of the centre around the old town square had not been rebuilt after the war. Now, another 17 years later, the remaining vacant lots have all been developed. While obviously not as prosperous as Munich or the nicer parts of Berlin, there's still been a huge improvement since I was first there. And lots of cyclists. When I come back here to Prague, it's so obvious that *nobody* cycles here
The part of the video where the young guy looked over the wall was the local Stasi-HQ (51.06644934199581, 13.783988797277846). Putin didn't work for the Stasi. He worked for the KGB. They had their HQ across the street in one of the neat villas in that quarter of the city.
True that.
Tuesday 19th December 1989
At that very moment, only Romania and Albania still had old style, genuine Communist leaderships.
Romania's dictator run away 3 days later, when 800.000 people gathered for protests in the center of Bucharest, the capital. The city's center was already blocked since Dec 21, under siege from dictator's boys, but on the morning of Dec 22, about 800.000 people came to the rescue of the initial few protesters.
That first shot I thought was someone's kid wearing their hat. Those East German Soldiers were so very young.
03:14 - Someone please explain me what is the point of filming the man shoveling earth for so long, I really can't figure.
I think it's not earth but coal, which is stored in that basement.
While in west Germany most houses were heated by oil or even gas already, east Germany mostly used coal.
Because of the coal and also 2 stroke engines the air quality in most east German cities was absolutely horrible, as seen by the thick blue smoke above the river.
Почему фасады домов и зданий не реставрировали? Странно!!
No money
Because of all the Trabants the traffic sounds like chain saws.
No. This was my workplace, the MfS Bezirksverwaltung Dresden, not Putins post. Putin was around the corner in an old mansion, in the Angelikastraße.
no hay casas, todos son edificios, me hubiera gustado vivir alli pero seguro que la STASI me hubiera vigilado
Entiendes que no se puede dejar a los alemanes desatendidos. Sin el control de los rusos, no pueden vivir de manera civilizada.
El gran error de la unión soviética es que dividir la ciudad tenía que ser una ciudad Berlín ,capital de Alemania 🇩🇪 oriental!!
Life was good, until it wasn't.
How miserable. Looks exactly like some third world country in the mid fifties. And my Wife was Ukrainian and she said that they lived _very well_ in the East Germany! Jesas. 😱
finland street where he used to train judo
Life was better then. Now all cities look too much digital and plastic, with modern hollow facades with agressive colours, artificial LED lights...
The air was nasty and polluted plus you drove around in some papier-mâché, smoky barbecue grill, two-stroke piece of garbage
@@markhall6306don't insult my lada
You can still live this wonderful lifestyle. Move to some little village in bumf@ck Russia.
In the video, Dresden looks like crap.
I'd rather live in a digital plastic city than city 17