I miss the Cold War. As tense as it was, it was all rather...civilized. Now, the enemy chops the heads of innocent people and attacks office buildings. The Soviets had their ideology, but they were never as deeply anchored to their doctrine as these religious fanatics are to Islam. They are holding a grudge for shit that happened a thousand years ago for crying out loud. Time to move on, I would say...
There is a misconception by Americans that Berlin is in the center of Germany. It was actually deep in the soviet region. I notice Frankfurter where John LeCarre mentions the market in Absolute Friends was in the American district. Quite natural Queens University for the British section perhaps. Makes you wonder what the French left behind. Better relations with Belgium perhaps.
After the war Germany was divided into 3 parts. Most of the eastern third was taken into Poland (and a similar amount of territory was taken from Poland into Byelorussia SSR, now Belarus). This meant that Berlin, from being about 2/3 of the way from west to east across Northern Germany, now became practically a border town.
Still, that's the way life is. You pay off one vile murderous dictator with a share of the ruins of another vile murderous dictator's empire.
@anonUK A total disgrace and terror against Germany and germans. Thank God that this great country has been united for over 20 years. Half of Poland and Königsberg should still be german though. Then the Baltic Sea wouldn´t be so polluted for one.
I miss the Cold War. As tense as it was, it was all rather...civilized. Now, the enemy chops the heads of innocent people and attacks office buildings. The Soviets had their ideology, but they were never as deeply anchored to their doctrine as these religious fanatics are to Islam. They are holding a grudge for shit that happened a thousand years ago for crying out loud. Time to move on, I would say...
geoffck6969 1 year ago
@geoffck6969 Yes, I agree with you, the world was much more safe then that it is today...
florenciagripaldi07 1 year ago
@florenciagripaldi07 lol
rjsmc 1 year ago
There is a misconception by Americans that Berlin is in the center of Germany. It was actually deep in the soviet region. I notice Frankfurter where John LeCarre mentions the market in Absolute Friends was in the American district. Quite natural Queens University for the British section perhaps. Makes you wonder what the French left behind. Better relations with Belgium perhaps.
newnameism 1 year ago
@newnameism
After the war Germany was divided into 3 parts. Most of the eastern third was taken into Poland (and a similar amount of territory was taken from Poland into Byelorussia SSR, now Belarus). This meant that Berlin, from being about 2/3 of the way from west to east across Northern Germany, now became practically a border town.
Still, that's the way life is. You pay off one vile murderous dictator with a share of the ruins of another vile murderous dictator's empire.
anonUK 1 year ago
@anonUK A total disgrace and terror against Germany and germans. Thank God that this great country has been united for over 20 years. Half of Poland and Königsberg should still be german though. Then the Baltic Sea wouldn´t be so polluted for one.
Embrace731 8 months ago
silly trailer for a great film
vivascargill 2 years ago 6