Dear comrades friends, tomorrow Berliners will celebrate 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall - a huge event which changed so much in the world. Now, 20 years later, lots of people, especially at this side of the former Iron Curtain, are looking back and contemplating on the past two decades. Drawing the line and checking the balance. What
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The Soviets were too preoccupied with their own troubles, to send any tanks. Later, when the events lead the people on the streets to bring down the Socialist government which had come back to power after several years of Democrat government (long story), it occurred that the Parliament building was assaulted by the mob. The then president (a Socialist, former Communist) Petar Mladenov was heard saying in front of the TV cameras "I wish the tanks came". Later, he interpreted it as "Call for Stanko" (the internal minister). The two sentences sound very much the same in my language. But he remained as the "tankist" president. That government was brought down by the street (the ( ... )
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So there won't be much to argue unless somebody like Gillen tries to evangelize for Communism.
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A lot of us Americans have this notion that BDSM is currently almost a national passtime in ze Deutcheland. Care to comment?
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Here, be my guest. I'd gladly sell you one (sorry for the advertisement, it's where I work).
Porn was thriving even under communism. East Germany and Czechoslovakia were big porn producers. However access to porn was very limited. I remember my grandpa used to collect those playing cards with chicks on them LOL. And also those round-shaped photo projectors which you had to look like through oculars, where you switched between photos by pressing a button. And that was all I could say about porn at that time. :)
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lol nothing can stop porn. NOTHING. It's practically a law of physics.
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