\n(old GDR advertisement of the electrical engineering industry)<\/p>\n
\n(old GDR advertisement of the electrical engineering industry)<\/p>\n
There was a longer discussion on that randform post about oppression in the GDR<\/a>. Within the discussion a randform reader called Ditta<\/a> found my opinion that “part of all that huge mess of a wall through the streets of Berlin <\/a> was plain economic warfare” absurd. This is still my opinion: there were surely people running away from East Germany for pure political reasons, but I dare say that a not to small part left for economical reasons. Moreover this reasoning doesnt justify the wall, I think it is clear that the wall was an inhuman mistake. The discussion just sheds a different light on the involved motivations.<\/p>\n I currently have not the time to discuss this in detail and since this is a different thread I hereby link to the comment<\/a> which led to Ditta’s reaction and ask people who wish to discuss this issue to leave their comments here at this thread.<\/p>\n