20 years later

[htpcl]

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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[devil_ad_vocate]

I spent a cold winter in 1968 at Grafenwohr after the Russians invaded Czechoslavakia. Beautiful country. I wish I could have spent more time there. At the time, I was more concerned about the possibililty of Soviet tanks crossing into Germany. I always thought the saddest thing about the division was family members being separated from each other for so many years - in addition to the people trying to escape who were killed by the Stasi .

[htpcl]

Don't you wish to return there some day and see how things have gone since then?

[devil_ad_vocate]

I would like to; it's a little expensive for us right now.

[htpcl]

Don't tell me you never did? During all those years...

[devil_ad_vocate]

Raising kids, making a living, bills, etc. Not rich...

[htpcl]

Yeah... Life takes us hostages, more or less.