Thread:Bheadr27/@comment-25819845-20150830193306/@comment-24397663-20150923210211

@Mac - XDD yea, I know... after 25 years it's still Wessies against Ossis sometimes XDD

But walls built in peoples minds for 40 years won't disappear sooner that another 40 years...

You see, I grew up with the Wall. My parents were teens, not much older than me at the Fall, when the Wall was built. The first generation growing up without the Wall is now in their twens and don't really understand what happened in both parts in the country before the reunion. But the older ones won't forget that easily. Or forgive...

and to be honest, I'm having a little trouble with the youngsters, that ignore our recent history. We were so lucky, it could have caused a new WW, if just one tiny piece of the whole picture had gone another way...

Met a boy some years ago, he was in his early twenties or late teens, a friend of some of my friends and they visited Berlin together. So I went sightseeing with them and we ended up at Madame Tussauds. There in the political corner was a waxfigure of Adenauer. And that said boy started to bleat about he had built the Wall... so he got a Gibbs-slap up the head from me for that. The boy started to complain of course, which got him another slap from me. I took him by the shoulder and showed him another waxfigure - of Walter Ulbricht. And the boy (an Ossi by the way) looked at me with blank eyes and asked who thís person was and if he should know him... followed by a third slap. I finally asked him, if he hadn't listened to history at all in school, but he said, they weren't taught about that... unbelievable... it was one of our top themes, we were tought at my time...

But to make a long story short - the Wessis vs Ossis will end, when my parents Generation and possibly my own is no longer there to complain  ;-))