Stop it please. Reported
@mods
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Ok, everything is deleted. @Sithbare, when you come back again, please reflect on your posts. This isn’t like you, so I don’t know what has happened. Many of your posts contain bannable offences. So, please post like your usual self soon again. Cheers.
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Perhaps ask magnus to not refer to me or reply to my posts.
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I’ve read through the posts, and you are bang out of line. I’m not sure where this explosion of rage has come from, but please understand that you are getting an enormous amount of slack here because you’re a valued member of the forum.
Take Hopes advice. Log off, watch the reds in half an hour and come back in a different state of mind. Keep this up, and you’ll be taking an enforced break.
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There have been reported posts before w.r.t said person concerned where enough action hasn’t been taken before.
All I’m asking is for someone to not refer to me or reply to my posts.
I don’t have anything else to add.
Game on in 15mins. Let’s go and watch that.
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Thank you for the videos @Livvy.
Thanks @Bekloppt for the recommendation
@RedWhippet , this is fascinating. It must have been so hard in those days.
What is the name of that forbidden road? What used to happen if you got caught using it?
I am curious, as I love Geography and I was an avid map reader before it became internet/digital.
I am trying to find maps of East Germany and West Germany with all the towns in them.
Mecklenburger Landstraße. If you went down it during the Cold War you would simply be turned back by NATO personnel (either German or British soldiers).
https://maps.app.goo.gl/NkkBTeVqVEGR59S27
The peninsula is called Priwall. You can get a better idea of the geography on the map.
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I am reading up on this on the internet. When I was growing up, I always knew the DDR Germany and FRG Germany. The East Germans used to get more medals than the West Germans in the Olympics.
My Dad had a Diplomat (from Pakistan) friend in Qatar in the early 1980s and he was posted as Ambassador to East Germany, he was based in East Berlin, but his kids studied in West Berlin.
I always wondered, people who lived in West Berlin during the cold war, they were surrounded by East Germany, cut off from the rest of Germany. How did the locals manage travelling to the West? For example, you wanted to go for a drive in the countryside and have a picnic by the lake or visit another city to see friends but you couldn’t because you would be crossing into DDR Germany. It must have been like living in a goldfish bowl or bubble in West Berlin.
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There were official travel corridors. There’s more information here:
My wife’s grandparents were in the East and they were able to visit her in the West once they had retired but my wife’s father was an American airforce pilot and the US authorities forbade her from visiting the East as there was a risk that she might be held by the East German authorities.
I think the whole situation was largely messed up. Aside from anything else, the West Berlin football clubs had practically no away fans as it was too much hassle.
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Due to doping. There are many people still living with the side effects.
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Thought some of you might find this article of interest:
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I hope it means the end of the FDP.
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It’s been predicted before.
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I’m quite intrigued by the book but the extracts I saw seemed rather diplomatic in tone. I was curious about whether it mentions her dealings with Theresa May, for example, but apparently there are only half a dozen pages on the whole Brexit thing.
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Can’t wrap my head around the love Merkel is getting on this forum all the time. Basically all the problems the country is facing have their roots in her 16 year chancellorship. She was a decent crisis manager, but lacked any interest in reforms or forward thinking, largely profited from reforms before her time and then stagnated. Doesn’t mean I disagree with everything she did, but the status she’s been getting is completely beyond me.
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