On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:25:36 +0100, Oliver Schnell
wrote:

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)

That is possibly true to some extent in the same way that people often
travel thousands of miles legally or illegally to find to their
disappointment that e.g. the streets of London tend to be paved with
sh1t rather than gold and that some (note- only some) of the locals
are nastier than those they have left behind.
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