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**bestcigsnick** · 06-13-2012, 03:46 AM

My grandfather moved from West Germany's Ruhr coal pits to the East in order to become a teacher in 1946. If he hadn't done that, you know, we would not be having this conversation, since, I guess, the Berlin wall would never have been built, or something.

I hate to say it but your grandfather was a dumb ass or at least made an extremely bad decision. Even so the DDR, as bad as it was, was still the most developed member of the Warsaw Pact and they didn't routinely chuck people into death camps where they get 600 calories per day simply because some distant family member said or did something the absolute dictator didn't like. North Korea does. It's Stalinism on steroids with twice the death camps.

06-13-2012, 03:46 AM	#4
bestcigsnick Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	My grandfather moved from West Germany's Ruhr coal pits to the East in order to become a teacher in 1946. If he hadn't done that, you know, we would not be having this conversation, since, I guess, the Berlin wall would never have been built, or something. I hate to say it but your grandfather was a dumb ass or at least made an extremely bad decision. Even so the DDR, as bad as it was, was still the most developed member of the Warsaw Pact and they didn't routinely chuck people into death camps where they get 600 calories per day simply because some distant family member said or did something the absolute dictator didn't like. North Korea does. It's Stalinism on steroids with twice the death camps.
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