Perhaps format your hateful nonsense into a single post. You are spamming your unintelligent nonsensical one liners all over a thread. It’s not interesting to me, and probably less to others.
I don’t have time for you, I am not at home and out with friends, but safe to say no. I have viewed you as a complete disrespectful imbecile with bad ethics for years now. If removing my “mask” is the hobby you want to have, then go for it
Or you can shut the fuck up, or alternatively start writing actually sensible posts for once. Your choice.
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.
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.
@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).
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.
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.