No, Germany is more Polarized than ever before in it's History. The Old Parties are maintaining a "Brandmauer" against the strongest Oppostion Party, the AFD (Alternative for Deutschland).
Now Germany is no Sovereign Country anymore, We are a Country under US-Occupation, and our Government has betrayed us. Merkel made sure of it, Scholz finalized it
Well, it wasn´t only the "Berlin Wall". This Wall streched all over the whole border of the BRD/GDR and also surrounded the whole city, since it was basically in the former GDR.
I was born in West Germany in the same year the wall was built. It was normal for me to travel to France, Italy, Spain, but never in the Eastern part of my own country. I never thought that this could change. Until 1989. There is a story about my aunt and my uncle. My very young aunt was from West Germany, but worked in East Germany. There, she fell in love with a young handsome man, who was then sent to West Germany for studying. After WW2 it was not easy to keep in contact, they didn’t have telephone and letters needed days or even weeks. One day the young man heard that the Russians wanted to close the border. He paniked, because my aunt was still there. He traveled by train to the eastern part and hoped, he could take my aunt with him to the west before they close the border. When he arrived days later he was shocked. My aunt had the same idea and was afraid that she never meets him again. She travelled back to West Germany immediately. Without knowing they passed each other. Now he was in the east and she in the west, still separated. Fortunately my uncle was able to come back just before the border closed for nearly 30 years.
@andreadee1567 Nur jetzt koennen wir nicht mehr direkt nach Russland Reisen. Und mit Bundesbahn Zuegen die sich staendig verspaeten, mit einer Chance gemessert zu werden , ist das Reisen durch Deutschland zu einem Abenteuer geworden.
Most of the border strip (not in Berlin, but the rural border) is a nature conservation area today. It's called the Green Ribbon, going all the way from the wooded hills of Bavaria to the Baltic Sea. The great thing about it is that it lets species migrate in between the island-like national parks. These islands are few and far between, so they often produce genetic bottle necks. Migrating along the Green Ribbon has done wonders for the gene pool of endangered species. Germans on both sides have always loved hiking and bird-watching, so this passion was one of the first ways we reunified and literally stepped on common ground.
Netflix shows a film "Mit dem Ballon in die Freiheit". Other people built a tunnel, escape with trucks and even with a lock. In the first weeks after the wall was built people jump out of windows in front of the border and Westgermans people caught they. Nobody knows how much people are died at the border.
Very nice reaction video!! It's heartbreaking to think of all the innocent people who were murdered by their own soldiers and police officers. They deserve to be remembered.
The were NOT their own soldiers. The GDR was a independent country. The number of killings was at least 140. The number of efforts to leave the country was tens of thousands. When you were caught during your effort you went to a special prison for several years.
the day they built the wall this happened all of a sudden: families were split; parents tried to return from work, but couldn t get back to their children!!! brother was separated from sister or husband from wife. for decades!!! that alone lead to several quite adventurous attempts to flee
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This border was the dividing line between the NATO and Warsaw Pact blocs. Like the border in Korea, it was a ‘hot line’. At times, there were even mines and spring guns. From the mid-1970s, around 45,000 soldiers served in the border troops, along with almost 30,000 ‘border troop assistants’. In line with the doctrine of the ‘Eastern Bloc’ countries, this border was the first line of defence of socialism. It was designed not only to prevent escapes, but also the infiltration of enemy agents or troops. In this sense: ‘Friendship’ - the greeting of the FDJ (Free German Youth) in the GDR
Theres a movie about the Balloon Story, called Ballon aka Balloon. Dont know if balloon is in english or german with eng subtitles. Impressive film with good german actors
That is why I really disgusted the communist system of the GDR. I always felt that the seperation of West and East Germans was not for eternity,but I did not expect to witness the end of the system. The East Germans were my heroes, because they were able to achieve freedom without weapons or war.
It is the sad truth that socialism and communism only works that way: to suppress individualism the regime feels the need to enforce their policies resulting in closed borders and many dead bodies. Either by force or by economy of scarce. The Irony is that to keep up socialism, the regime needs to feed supporters - which results in "privileges" while the rest lives in absolute basics or suffers. Just like in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" - a film worth watching.
@TheCyberCore The sad Irony is, the collective West has turned into a planed Economy System, Intimidating the Global South with Regime Change operations , if they do not sell them their Resource for cheap. That's why country's like Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Rwanda and so on , are kicking their former Colonizers like France out of their countries. We have not realized just yet, thay our Welfare depended on exploiting the Global South. Now the RRICS countries and the Global South have started to assert Themselves, and they might dump the US$ Lead Currency. Miele, Bosch, VW, Audi and Porsch are met with dire consequences: Relocate to the BRICS Countries or the US, and leave Germany as the Production Hub, or go Bankrupt , and lay off 10 000's of Jobs. Europe is in dire Straits.
Repressive Regime sind sicher nicht alleine eine kommunistische Erfindung. Man muss auch immer die Umstände mit bedenken. Die Sowjetunion wurde ab der Oktoberrevolution von innen und außen bekämpft, um zu überleben blieb wohl nicht viel anderes übrig als autoritär aufzutreten.
@@bastyaya Yes, Marx was a theoretical thinker. Those that become leaders only think in terms of power and money which often makes them the playball of those who really own the wealth and/or power. The ideology behind those leaders makes no difference. To cite Megadeth from their piece "Symphony of Destruction": "You take a mortal man And put him in control Watch him become a god Watch people's heads a'roll" But to be fair: The most deathyl crimes against their own people in history was always committed by socialists. The only more deathly ideology is the Quran - but they needed 1400 years for their death tolls. Socialists managed to incarnate their death toll in only 120 years. The capitalist leaders call themselves "freedom fighters" and bring the death to other people in a bit lower numbers. In the end it is both satanic and ruthless.
@@TheCyberCore But what you say, is exactly what I meant and the problem. People like Stalin or today Maduro, Ortega etc are not what Marx or Engels (I am quite sure about that) would call socialists. They name themselves like that to distance themselves from capitalist systems such as the US. But at the end, they are the same fascist dictatorships, just with a different name they are hiding behind and that has nothing to do with its ideas.
It WAS like north- and south- Korea. But the border was longer and not so closed for western people, we were able to visit the other side. By the way the so called "Iron curtain" was stretched though whole Europe to provide that people can escape from the socialistic States to the capitalistic western states. I have visited the GDR, Hungary and the CSFR when I was a pupil. To me it was a greyer, poorer and controlled world comparede to the west where I used to live. I until 1989 I couldn't Imagine that this state could ende during my lifetime.
@@ernstwiltmann6 you're right. But the difference today and the similarity to Korea in former times is, Russia, to me, isn't a land with the same language and culture. And nearly the half of the citizens doesn't have close relatives like brothers, sisters living there which are usually killed when they try to leave their country.
@@alis098 Liberal Globalism doesn't care about different Language and culture, look at how that works in the gemeral Hemniphere of Western Values and Laws: It doesn't, It is destroying our Urban Centers, alianates us from education, traditional values and Religion, by replacing it with the Fake Religion of Progressive Wokeness including LBGTQ politics and Climate Change Alarmism. The East and the Global South follow the Concept of Sovereign Staates with unconditional Trade Rules. Our Elites and thus our Media hate it, and paint us a wrong Image, as negative and degrading as possible. It only takes a little bit of an open mind and travel, to find out the Lies of our Liberal Legacy Media.
3:08 the Situation you described existed 35 years ago, since than things have gone differently but not neccessarily better. The Price of Unification was too high for many families. Bitter feelings netween East and West have prevailed.
You should have paid more attention during history lessons and documentary films!! Who does not know Kennedy´s words: "Ich bin ein Berliner"? You really have been living underneath a stone!!
The vast majority of people don't know. This aside, I'm French-Canadian, which you should have known given my very obvious accent. So you should know that I grow up in an era where Quebec almost became a country, therefore a lot was oriented toward our own history. This is something that you should know since you are so smart. Canada is 20-25% French, and had a strong history with the English speaking people surrounding them. So what's your excuse for obviously not knowing why American politic was very far down the list of priorities in the French part of Canada?
I was there as the Berlin Wall fell. I was a 9 years old kid living in the west side of the city and we went there to welcome the people of the east side. Even as a kid I knew whats going on and I definitely can't understand, why Germany is supporting the Urkaine in this war. It was Russia (UDSSR) which made the reunion of Germany possible. They took their 500.000 man in arms out of East Berlin back to Russia because of a single promise. "Not even an inch the NATO will expand eastwards." That was the one and only reaons for Russia. But the West didn't keep that promise and of course Russia had to invade the Ukraine, cause NATO weaponary cannot be stationed in the Ukraine, a few Kilometers away from Moscow. The Ukraine must stay neutral, else, the next World War is beginning.
@@jornschneider2723 When Russian rockets was stationed in Cuba the USA reacted so harsh that we was very close to a nuclaer strike. Was that democratic enough? Since the USA continues the cold war, there CAN'T be a Ukraine in the NATO. So easy it is.
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"Two different countries almost"? It WAS two different countries.
No, Germany is more Polarized than ever before in it's History. The Old Parties are maintaining a "Brandmauer" against the strongest Oppostion Party, the AFD (Alternative for Deutschland).
Now Germany is no Sovereign Country anymore, We are a Country under US-Occupation, and our Government has betrayed us. Merkel made sure of it, Scholz finalized it
Well, it wasn´t only the "Berlin Wall". This Wall streched all over the whole border of the BRD/GDR and also surrounded the whole city, since it was basically in the former GDR.
Actually the "wall" was a wired fence most of outside of Berlin
13:26 there‘s an awesome German movie by Michael „Bully“ Herbig (Ballon, 2018), depicting that story.
Der ist nur fuer Piefkes ertraeglich, kein film der die Bruecke zwischen uns Deutschen wieder repariert.
I was born in West Germany in the same year the wall was built. It was normal for me to travel to France, Italy, Spain, but never in the Eastern part of my own country. I never thought that this could change. Until 1989.
There is a story about my aunt and my uncle. My very young aunt was from West Germany, but worked in East Germany. There, she fell in love with a young handsome man, who was then sent to West Germany for studying. After WW2 it was not easy to keep in contact, they didn’t have telephone and letters needed days or even weeks. One day the young man heard that the Russians wanted to close the border. He paniked, because my aunt was still there. He traveled by train to the eastern part and hoped, he could take my aunt with him to the west before they close the border. When he arrived days later he was shocked. My aunt had the same idea and was afraid that she never meets him again. She travelled back to West Germany immediately. Without knowing they passed each other. Now he was in the east and she in the west, still separated. Fortunately my uncle was able to come back just before the border closed for nearly 30 years.
@andreadee1567 Nur jetzt koennen wir nicht mehr direkt nach Russland Reisen. Und mit Bundesbahn Zuegen die sich staendig verspaeten, mit einer Chance gemessert zu werden , ist das Reisen durch Deutschland zu einem Abenteuer geworden.
Most of the border strip (not in Berlin, but the rural border) is a nature conservation area today. It's called the Green Ribbon, going all the way from the wooded hills of Bavaria to the Baltic Sea. The great thing about it is that it lets species migrate in between the island-like national parks. These islands are few and far between, so they often produce genetic bottle necks. Migrating along the Green Ribbon has done wonders for the gene pool of endangered species.
Germans on both sides have always loved hiking and bird-watching, so this passion was one of the first ways we reunified and literally stepped on common ground.
Netflix shows a film "Mit dem Ballon in die Freiheit". Other people built a tunnel, escape with trucks and even with a lock. In the first weeks after the wall was built people jump out of windows in front of the border and Westgermans people caught they. Nobody knows how much people are died at the border.
Very nice reaction video!! It's heartbreaking to think of all the innocent people who were murdered by their own soldiers and police officers. They deserve to be remembered.
The were NOT their own soldiers. The GDR was a independent country. The number of killings was at least 140. The number of efforts to leave the country was tens of thousands. When you were caught during your effort you went to a special prison for several years.
@@falcotol9299 How were they not their own soldiers? Of course they were.
@@falcotol9299 the people that tried to leave the country were citizens of the GDR, so the soldiers were their own soldiers. Or am I wrong?
the day they built the wall this happened all of a sudden: families were split; parents tried to return from work, but couldn t get back to their children!!! brother was separated from sister or husband from wife. for decades!!! that alone lead to several quite adventurous attempts to flee
This border was the dividing line between the NATO and Warsaw Pact blocs. Like the border in Korea, it was a ‘hot line’.
At times, there were even mines and spring guns.
From the mid-1970s, around 45,000 soldiers served in the border troops, along with almost 30,000 ‘border troop assistants’.
In line with the doctrine of the ‘Eastern Bloc’ countries, this border was the first line of defence of socialism. It was designed not only to prevent escapes, but also the infiltration of enemy agents or troops.
In this sense: ‘Friendship’ - the greeting of the FDJ (Free German Youth) in the GDR
Theres a movie about the Balloon Story, called Ballon aka Balloon. Dont know if balloon is in english or german with eng subtitles. Impressive film with good german actors
That is why I really disgusted the communist system of the GDR. I always felt that the seperation of West and East Germans was not for eternity,but I did not expect to witness the end of the system. The East Germans were my heroes, because they were able to achieve freedom without weapons or war.
i come from the eastern part and i know tis very well
It is the sad truth that socialism and communism only works that way: to suppress individualism the regime feels the need to enforce their policies resulting in closed borders and many dead bodies. Either by force or by economy of scarce.
The Irony is that to keep up socialism, the regime needs to feed supporters - which results in "privileges" while the rest lives in absolute basics or suffers. Just like in George Orwell's "Animal Farm" - a film worth watching.
@TheCyberCore
The sad Irony is, the collective West has turned into a planed Economy System, Intimidating the Global South with Regime Change operations , if they do not sell them their Resource for cheap. That's why country's like Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Rwanda and so on , are kicking their former Colonizers like France out of their countries. We have not realized just yet, thay our Welfare depended on exploiting the Global South. Now the RRICS countries and the Global South have started to assert Themselves, and they might dump the US$ Lead Currency. Miele, Bosch, VW, Audi and Porsch are met with dire consequences: Relocate to the BRICS Countries or the US, and leave Germany as the Production Hub, or go Bankrupt , and lay off 10 000's of Jobs. Europe is in dire Straits.
Repressive Regime sind sicher nicht alleine eine kommunistische Erfindung.
Man muss auch immer die Umstände mit bedenken.
Die Sowjetunion wurde ab der Oktoberrevolution von innen und außen bekämpft, um zu überleben blieb wohl nicht viel anderes übrig als autoritär aufzutreten.
The main irony is that Marx never had these kind of ideas what people think is socialism today
@@bastyaya Yes, Marx was a theoretical thinker. Those that become leaders only think in terms of power and money which often makes them the playball of those who really own the wealth and/or power. The ideology behind those leaders makes no difference. To cite Megadeth from their piece "Symphony of Destruction":
"You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch people's heads a'roll"
But to be fair: The most deathyl crimes against their own people in history was always committed by socialists. The only more deathly ideology is the Quran - but they needed 1400 years for their death tolls. Socialists managed to incarnate their death toll in only 120 years. The capitalist leaders call themselves "freedom fighters" and bring the death to other people in a bit lower numbers.
In the end it is both satanic and ruthless.
@@TheCyberCore But what you say, is exactly what I meant and the problem. People like Stalin or today Maduro, Ortega etc are not what Marx or Engels (I am quite sure about that) would call socialists. They name themselves like that to distance themselves from capitalist systems such as the US. But at the end, they are the same fascist dictatorships, just with a different name they are hiding behind and that has nothing to do with its ideas.
It WAS like north- and south- Korea. But the border was longer and not so closed for western people, we were able to visit the other side.
By the way the so called "Iron curtain" was stretched though whole Europe to provide that people can escape from the socialistic States to the capitalistic western states.
I have visited the GDR, Hungary and the CSFR when I was a pupil. To me it was a greyer, poorer and controlled world comparede to the west where I used to live. I until 1989 I couldn't Imagine that this state could ende during my lifetime.
@alis098
Now it is the other way around, Germans can no longer visit Russia directly. they have to take a Detour via Turkey, Slovakia or Hungary.
@@ernstwiltmann6 you're right. But the difference today and the similarity to Korea in former times is, Russia, to me, isn't a land with the same language and culture. And nearly the half of the citizens doesn't have close relatives like brothers, sisters living there which are usually killed when they try to leave their country.
@@alis098 Liberal Globalism doesn't care about different Language and culture, look at how that works in the gemeral Hemniphere of Western Values and Laws: It doesn't, It is destroying our Urban Centers, alianates us from education, traditional values and Religion, by replacing it with the Fake Religion of Progressive Wokeness including LBGTQ politics and Climate Change Alarmism. The East and the Global South follow the Concept of Sovereign Staates with unconditional Trade Rules. Our Elites and thus our Media hate it, and paint us a wrong Image, as negative and degrading as possible. It only takes a little bit of an open mind and travel, to find out the Lies of our Liberal Legacy Media.
3:08 the Situation you described existed 35 years ago, since than things have gone differently but not neccessarily better. The Price of Unification was too high for many families. Bitter feelings netween East and West have prevailed.
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Estgermany have a paramilitary group call young pioneers FDJ and NVA control from Russia
I born West-Berlin
You should have paid more attention during history lessons and documentary films!! Who does not know Kennedy´s words: "Ich bin ein Berliner"? You really have been living underneath a stone!!
The vast majority of people don't know. This aside, I'm French-Canadian, which you should have known given my very obvious accent. So you should know that I grow up in an era where Quebec almost became a country, therefore a lot was oriented toward our own history. This is something that you should know since you are so smart. Canada is 20-25% French, and had a strong history with the English speaking people surrounding them. So what's your excuse for obviously not knowing why American politic was very far down the list of priorities in the French part of Canada?
I was there as the Berlin Wall fell. I was a 9 years old kid living in the west side of the city and we went there to welcome the people of the east side. Even as a kid I knew whats going on and I definitely can't understand, why Germany is supporting the Urkaine in this war. It was Russia (UDSSR) which made the reunion of Germany possible. They took their 500.000 man in arms out of East Berlin back to Russia because of a single promise. "Not even an inch the NATO will expand eastwards." That was the one and only reaons for Russia. But the West didn't keep that promise and of course Russia had to invade the Ukraine, cause NATO weaponary cannot be stationed in the Ukraine, a few Kilometers away from Moscow. The Ukraine must stay neutral, else, the next World War is beginning.
you cant tell poland or the baltic s , if they wanna be in the nato....it s only up to them
@@jornschneider2723 When Russian rockets was stationed in Cuba the USA reacted so harsh that we was very close to a nuclaer strike. Was that democratic enough? Since the USA continues the cold war, there CAN'T be a Ukraine in the NATO. So easy it is.
@@ParalyticAngel there was no ww3. , cause, russkies only respekt power , not weak soy-boy s
Your Story ist BS. I tried to comment on this in detail, but YT sady didn't let me do it.
@@DalaiDrama-hp6oj yeah sad, but my wasn't a story. Its history.