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Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 13:33:13 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet? Edited stat, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 5 13:25:40 2017. The atmosphere, and reconstruction wasn't what it was in the west, two decades after the war. It looked impoverished and she felt watched. Tourism and being comfortable with tourists was, understandably, not an East German thing in those days. All compared with West Berlin, of course, which had its own peculiarities. She spoke German well enough to purchase a Soviet-made camera (is people's camera, everyone) as a souvenir. It cost very little, which was fortunate, since she said it never worked.If she had returned to East Berlin to try to have it fixed under warranty, I probably would never have known her... |
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