I think I've told you this before, but what with living so close to most of Eastern Europe, it was always a low-level threat we're not all happy about the RussoGerman gaslink in the sea but there's nothing we can do about it unfortunately, being too small and I was living in freedom (albeit a Socialistic idiot version of it). I was 13 when it happened, and I still remember most of the major political events of that year and its aftermath even though I couldn't quite believe my own eyes.
I'm still so very happy about it. Doubly so, because quite a lot of our political leaders of the time looked up to Eastern Germany and they're still around being insane and not being properly called on it because for some reason it's OK-ish to be a communist here.
That's why it's so important that people who lived under such regimes speak up so that we realise how lucky we are. So, thank you.
Well, to be frank, there's communist and communist. Some of the basic ideas weren't the worstin the world, but, as always, it wasn't ther ideas that made bad things happen, but the people who turned the ideas into reality.
(Believe me, I think few people are happy about that gaslink. I don't think it's safe enough.)
Thanks for your words! They ring very true. I am glad we could met due to this. I am glad you could do all you wrote down up there. For you meeting the silly man. For your parents being safe. And about being able to have a unified Germany, beautiful and intersting and complicated as it is. Hell, my job is showing people around an East German town!
You know, the nice thing is that you can say: I show people around a German city. Niether East nor West, just German. Of course, I'd be a fool to believe that tha old ideas are already gone. Yes, I, too, still think in East and West. It's going to take one or two more generations after us to truly become a united Germany. But for now? Heck, we managed a lot. Together.
I thought of you especially today, realizing that if the wall hadn't come down, I would very likely never have met you and had such a good friend. It's so easy to forget and to take for granted now.
And I am so glad, and so grateful to have you. My life would be a lot less rich if I didn't know you. And my writing never would be where it is (despite being dormant at the moment), if it weren't for you.
You're welcome. And, oh! I didn't realise I had locked the entry. I added its content to this entry, so if you're still interested, just go back to this page.
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I'm still so very happy about it. Doubly so, because quite a lot of our political leaders of the time looked up to Eastern Germany and they're still around being insane and not being properly called on it because for some reason it's OK-ish to be a communist here.
That's why it's so important that people who lived under such regimes speak up so that we realise how lucky we are. So, thank you.
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Well, to be frank, there's communist and communist. Some of the basic ideas weren't the worstin the world, but, as always, it wasn't ther ideas that made bad things happen, but the people who turned the ideas into reality.
(Believe me, I think few people are happy about that gaslink. I don't think it's safe enough.)
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Happy Mauerfall Day!
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Of course, I'd be a fool to believe that tha old ideas are already gone. Yes, I, too, still think in East and West. It's going to take one or two more generations after us to truly become a united Germany.
But for now? Heck, we managed a lot. Together.
And I, too, am glad we could meet.
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I'm glad to have you in my life.
I'm glad you have this life, with these freedoms.
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Thank you, dear.
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And, oh! I didn't realise I had locked the entry. I added its content to this entry, so if you're still interested, just go back to this page.
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