Should they put the Berlin Wall back up?

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I am RILLY RILLY pissed off that I missed out seeing communism in action! I would've loved to have travelled behind the Iron Curtain and seen the brutalist architecture and heard the Songs of the Heroic Tractor Drivers. Apparently in the former East Germany they have 'ostalgie' nights where they play pre-89 TV shows, etc.

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I heart 1938: cue fat comedian from Omsk: "THE SHOW TRIALS! What were we thinking of!!" He is not funny, and nor is this joke, really.

― mark s, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they have some kind of beer in east germany that's really disgusting and westerners thought they would be able to come along and destroy sales of it with their new fancy beer but people kept drinking it anyway = WORST ANECDOTE EVER TOLD

― maryann, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hear that one of the best-selling novels in the early Stalinist USSR was called Cement. On the other hand, some heavy-handed Maoist Chinese propaganda film (Taking Tiger Mountain) inspired one of Brian Eno's best solo albums.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://member.aol.com/StalJoseph/pics/15.jpg

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They look happy enough to me.

― Greg, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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