Life on both sides of the Berlin wall

[@Bulletguy07]

Not for some. Others will have different opinions. I have met a number of ex-DDR people and views vary widely. One man I met accessed his Stasi file after the Wall fell.....only to find his own sister had been working for them. He has never spoke to her or seen her since '89.....and doesn't want to. But imagine how he must have felt?

[@HaveanOreshnik]

My grandfather was from Kaliningrad, USSR, he loved it, he went to East Germany and he felt like home too even though it was East Germany

[@HaveanOreshnik]

@Austin Andrews it's not bad, it's not as cold as some people say, mostly humid in cities

[@rosesprog1722]

It warms my heart to hear those soft words, we in north america were constantly bombarded with lies about threats and enemiesd that didn't even exist, we were told to live in fear and we did.

[@alepine1986]

I'm pleasantly surprised that the DDR is actually treated fairly in this. The key quote is this one: "If you didn't expect too much, it was pretty easy to live a good life." Hear, hear.

[@701983]

The Guardian is considered a leftist newspaper. So you can expect a rather positive report about a socialist state, compared to rather conservative media.

[@azerko]

It is very common assessment that lifestyle was a reasonable one, once you let go your freedom of speech. Now, the problem was that, as a whole, the country could not keep economically functioning... Basically, as most socialists countries, it went bankrupt.

[@benruffo1197]

A man on the East side used a hot air balloon to go up over the wall and down. Brilliant escape.

[@SamuelConsidine]

Life in Eastern Berlin doesn't seem as terribly bad as the western education system makes it out to be.

[@KaylaCollingwood]

My dad went to visit not long before the wall came down - it certainly was not a nice place to be. He had dinner with a family who were planning to escape.

[@azerko]

I was there... terrible!

[@floxy20]

Ask one of those guards if he would have shot someone trying to climb the wall. Think about what that means about that society.

[@boandlkramer2539]

I was /am living in the rigtht+free side of Berlin...in West Berlin.. Wedding 😎✌️

[@jaygill5582]

They always show videos of East Germany as black and white and in winter time, wasn't there summer and sunny skies at all?

[@darioslowww6337]

They have to.

[@mfbfreak]

East Germany pretty much had the same weather and nature as the West. Buildings were more drab and maintained worse, but a sunny day in a park in the east was just as pleasant as in the west. With the side note that the man in a trench coat reading a news paper, was actually listening to you and not doing any reading in the east. But to avoid people thinking life was normal for people in the east, it helps to show just the drab black and white films and pictures.

[@benruffo1197]

A man on the west side had a brother on the east side. Their children were cousins to each other. They never knew each other.

[@chairmanofrussia]

3:22 In East Berlin...they had Pepsi In West Berlin...they had Coca Cola .... THE BATTLE BEGINS NOW!!! PEPSI VS. COKE

[@ulrichlehnhardt4293]

Actually they had something called Club Cola.. I don't remember Pepsi...

[@Dannycuk]

What are they exaggerating about? They just recall memories, they don't say it was an horrific time. They just say what life was like for them, it seemed rather a balanced viewpoint to me.

[@SamuelConsidine]

I can understand, it was a very complex phenomenon.

[@gRosh08]

Stuck in the middle... That was not freedom!

[@ajrwilde14]

Low rent but you could only live in grey buildings, sounds alright to me.

[@RainingFlow19]

When u realize people in east berlin actually wants to stay a socialist country after they realized their mistakes of opening the wall. Lol

[@mchlbk]

It wasn't possible to continue. The economy collapsed due to near-zero development since WW2, the country was doomed.

[@moonbathing2002]

@@mchlbk So it was because they ran out off space?

[@Stanofmay]

The Berlin Wall shouldn't have happened. Good thing the D-Day invasions happened, otherwise the Soviet Union could've claimed the whole of Germany, Austria, Italy and even the low countries and France.

[@RipperBravo]

Horrifying thought, but so true.

[@RipperBravo]

It was, we the British reneged on our promise to the Poles that they'd be safe from the Communists and failed.

[@frisianmouve]

Stan Paweł churchill devised operation unthinkable which meant all out war with the soviets after the germans were defeated. It included atomic warfare from the allies, but the soviets had more troops on the front. Anyway i'm pretty sure people were tired of war then and i think the move would've been hugely unpopular

[@ramadansteve1715]

I doubt they couldve taken on Germany without the western front

[@mikescarlett3186]

Dem ver goot old togs ya! Ddr.

[@letitbe3625]

Military Crimes in east germany?

[@carolineblinking1565]

Hi,I recently have made a video on the cold war and i used a small clip of this video however to upload the video i understand that I have to ask permission to use the clip.I hope you don't mind but incase you do, out of fairness i have come to ask .I will not upload the video without permission.

[@philipbuckley759]

all these ones, speaking English.....

[@chairmanofrussia]

I find a certain charm in East Berlin, I have seen some other videos of East Berlin too. I prefer the fancy statues, towers like the Fernsehturm and the sort of old fashioned looking buildings over the neon signs...although I always thought hi-rise flats were kinda ugly...They look like they could collapse at any minute.... 0 ~ 0

[@kevinsundelin8639]

So charming to live in communistic dictatorship

[@moonbathing2002]

@@kevinsundelin8639 Do you think the 'free world' is truly a free world?

[@kevinsundelin8639]

@@moonbathing2002 It has been 2 years

[@moonbathing2002]

@@kevinsundelin8639 I know :-)

[@kevinsundelin8639]

@@moonbathing2002 I don't care for the debate of whether freedom exists or not, to be honest.

[@nghiepnguyenvan4344]

Wall colapsed makes many Vietnamese dare having bis estates in our country today. What belief in their idea???

We in the Western World BELIEVED in you Berliners!....we truly thought of you as heroes, on the front lines of freedom!.....only to come to find out that you were full of lies!!!.....you never felt yourselves as "allies"!....you act as if the "allies" occupy you!....My God....you were alive: far better than you EVER treated the people your Führer subjugated!.....full of bloody complaints!....now I know the truth: a leopard NEVER changes his spots!!!!

[@ulrichlehnhardt4293]

+Allon mielke: are you talking about east or west Berlin? I think you are right that east-Berliners felt occupied.. West-Berliners were very happy that the allies were there..

[@deathstridertheshadowscale8601]

Lol the USA governent follows you to.

[@SKY-jv9ue]

The Germans are to blame for this, for they supported Hitler, and this was the result...I don't feel sorry for those dopes! They thought that they were going to rule the Russians, and yet in the end, the Russians became THEIR MASTERS! Germany has NEVER won a war, the last one was in 1872!!!!

[@lewisconroy6225]

Roger Borroel Germany declaring war on Russia is no excuse for what happened to them mchlbk They did vote for him. He was voted into power in 1933.

[@geoffmorris1769]

mchlbk wrong! Hitler won an election. How do you not know this? He subsequently became a dictator.

[@sickpuppy9625]

at this time the nazi goverment was destroyed. it wasnt the goverment or the soldiers suffering it was innocent civilians who were suffering.

[@cbradley1391]

because its made by the people who run east berlin so of course they are going to make it out to seem all flowers and sunshine.

[@LeamingtonSteve]

at least the EU is bringing back the GDR for us all!

[@mchlbk]

Fool.

[@petroniaskho]

The EU is going to be dismantled in coming years. They're a bunch of unelected communist globalists. Brexit is a good beginning. Others will follow.

[@kevinsundelin8639]

@@petroniaskho "unelected comunist gloablists" lol