Thread: Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??
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Old December 31st 11, 10:25 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it?happen here...??
Am 31.12.2011 12:09, schrieb ian batten:

A man who believes that Stalin didn't kill anyone and the DDR was a
workers' paradise is hardly likely to let facts trouble him.

Luko: why did people flee the DDR, even at risk to their lives, in
such numbers that the DDR needed armed guards to keep them in?

Although I'm not Lügo, it is believed that it was just capitalistic
propaganda spread out through West German TV and - bananas:
http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archiv...L_1089244s.jpg
(Front cover of a West German magazine in November 1989)

Some more propaganda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4RMwEYrOE8
(There is also the full movie available at youtube)

SCNR

Oliver Schnell
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