⚫🔴🟡 3.10. - Day of German Unity 🖤💗💛
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Thanks @Spinnifix for the info, and thanks @Diamond Lim for the tag. I remember watching the news when the Berlin Wall fell. What a moment in history!
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Thank you for the very interesting information @Spinnifix.
I have loved Germany and the German people ever since I started learning German at the age of 12.
I did translation work for companies in the GDR (DDR) wanting to purchase machinery etc from the UK and their requests were always for no money to change hands, but for the UK companies to take goods as payment for the equipment.
My husband and I were in Berlin (both East and West) shortly before the Wall came down. We could sense that something was going to happen and cheered when it fell. It was such a wonderful thing for all of those families which had been separated by that wall for so long.
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@Spinnifix thanks for reminding this special day
This is a story very near to my heart.
For my friends and family it was a happy day the fall of the Berlin wall.
As I child I went every year mostly 6 a 8 weeks to Leipzig the DDR. Because my family of my mother lived their, my uncle, my half uncle, nieces and nephews. I loved being there.
I had a lot of friends there who I know lost, I don't know anymore where there are. When it's still was DDR we brought stickers and posters of musicians because that was forbidden and .
I brought chocolate and a lot of things with me for my friends.
And I got buy everything in a special shop with my passport as foreigner in the DDR. At the border from West to East Germany they were super strict. Everything was unpacked, so you had to hide everything very good under our clothes, etc...
We had a good live their We ordered a day before to go to eat in a chique restaurant and when I came with my boyfriend, he was a soldier from the DDR and I was 17 years old, they looked at us and said the restaurant is fully booked and I said no, I booked yesterday and they left me in and the restaurant was empty that was the DDR.
Outside there was a stand with quark cults, bratwurst, beer and lemonade by the big merchant houses outside. My father was sitting there with his brothers-in-law and we went shopping a lot and I bought things for my friends and a lot of toys when I was young because of very good financial circumstances. I wanted always to stay there, also my older sisters because of our German boyfriend.
They where never nice in the shops but they had free medicine and a cheap or free doctor
I still miss the DDR and if been a few times back after the fall of the Wall, but it's not better now, high prizes to rent, a lot of people without a job.
12 years later I went to Cuba and saw Fidel Castro, but the live and the special shops where the same as in the DDR.
