Christmas in Cold War Berlin - East Berlin's Lethal Updates to Berlin Wall (1967)

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

East Germany‘s brutality is quite overlooked. The East German politicians and officials planned and built the Berlin Wall and operated one of the biggest and most brutal secret police apparatus of their time. This video should be shown to everyone who glorifies the old regime and especially the situation in the German capital Berlin…

[@jerrycoob4750]

Yup. I’m 20 years old and I can’t imagine living in a city suddenly divided in two like that. A thing like that is an insult to human values

[@adaw2d3222]

What's overlooked as well are the positives. The country was full of bad and terrible things like the secret police but people still had normal careers and lives. It's not like North Korea, China or the Soviet Union. I think a balanced look leads to a layered opinion. This look will shape with how much literature you consume about it.

[@wattage2007]

@@adaw2d3222You’re an insane person I take it? Or a communist. Positives?! The “positives” are completely negated by the fact that you’ll be murdered by the government for trying to leave.