Regarding the current ongoing turmoil in Belarus and, at the same time, trying to find an answer to the most controversial question “Another Maidan or honest upheaval?”, have you paid a little attention to the flags they wave on rallies there? Those white-red-white thingies?

If you just only try to find some pieces of information in Wikipedia in ( Read more... )

After Greeks and Spaniards now refugees should become the fill for the often propagated "shortage of skilled workers" (in German: "Fachkräftemangel") which Germany's been officially crying about for years ( Read more... )

This one can also be enhanced: http://matrixmann.livejournal.com/124412.html"Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten." ("No-one has the intention to errect a wall.") is one of the famous quoted examples for political lies about an "inhuman regime" acting against the interests of its own people and locking them in under a doctrine ( Read more... )

On June 16 in 1953, on two large construction sides in the Stalinallee (Karl-Marx-Allee today) and the side of the reconstructing hospital Berlin-Friedrichshain work stoppages appeared, which formed a small protest march that went to the Haus der Gewerkschaften and Leipziger Straße. Haus der Gewerkschaften was the residence of the Free German Trade ( Read more... )

Follower to: http://matrixmann.livejournal.com/118495.htmlAs a result from the currency reform that was sided by the Western Allies and materialized by printing the bills overseas from September 1947 (shipping to Bremerhaven was from February 1948 until April 1948), the Soviet Military Administration in Germany ordered the mayor of Berlin to execute ( Read more... )

The first step to the diversion of Germany after WWII was the introduction of a new currency in June 1948, based upon a plan by Gerhard Colm, Joseph Morrell Dodge und Raymond W. Goldsmith (Colm-Dodge-Goldsmith-plan) made in 1946 ( Read more... )