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Life behind the Berlin Wall

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Uploaded by on Nov 6, 2009

Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker discusses 40 years spent chronicling life in strange, sad, vicious and sometimes hilarious East Berlin. Added to www.audiovideo.economist.com in November 2009

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  • Uhh... study WW2. It wasn't the "Yanks" who created west Germany. It was an agreed upon division of Germany by Allied powers after WW2.

    The difference between the "Yanks" and the Soviet Union is that once enough rebuilding was complete in Germany (about 7 years), they left West Germany to be an autonomous state only providing for their military defense since Germany was forbidden from creating an army.

  • Really informative, interesting, fab photos and great speaker

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  • i am a GDR citizen and this video is almost Bullshit.

  • "ample supply of beer and schnapps"

    I was already basically a commie, now I'm fuckin sold.

  • anti-communist propaganda

  • 3:22 LOL turn of the captions!

  • @TaoHe85

    It's also called Christianism I think, or so I was told

  • The Jews will pay for their crimes.

  • @beerrunner81 that's a useless thing to say.

  • The woman in the store didn't know how to get Rich Marks. (Money). It's called work. Socialism don't work, and never will.

  • Hope people will not believe in a society theory where everyone is equal no matter what. 

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