What historical event do you remember?

[Sava]

Challenger, I was 6.

[oedo]

Originally posted by paiktis22
I quite vividly remember east Berlin. We visited before the wall collapsed. West Berlin = Jungle. East Berlin = Paradise (but they didn't have cokes in restaurants).

that´s strange. I always thought it was other way round. I lived in East Berlin (1971-1982), West Berlin (1982-1990) and unified Berlin (after 1990) and I could swear that East Berlin has been the worst of them.

I remember all historical events after Sevilla 1982.

[Bereta_Eder]

oedo, not to the eyes of the visitor.

To me west Berlin seemed an industrialized urban jungle. Big traffic, drunks and drunk addicts on the streets, (for some reason punks - as in rock punks - seemed to have found a home there), huge ugly buildings, noize... you felt insecure. (or I did but I was little).


East Berlin was quiet, nice low buildings, quite streets, not congested, I also distinctively remember lots of bookstores, peace and quiet in general.

The only thing I didn;t like was when I ordered a coke and they didn't have it But they had something that tasted like this.


The walk from west to east Berlin through a turning and turning corridor and multiple checkpoints was a journey all in itself too.

[Sava]

East Berlin a paradise?

[Bereta_Eder]

Yep, that's how it seemed. Especially compared to west Berlin.

[Sava]

paiktis, you are forcing me to agree with DD on your status as a troll.... DON'T MAKE ME DO IT!

[Bereta_Eder]

You can feel what you want

This is not a troll. It's how it looked. Why does that surprises you?


Have you ever been there yourself Sava?

[Saras]

East Berlin = Stasi.

[Bereta_Eder]

east Berlin = Paradise.

Hint: That's how it looked.

[Sava]

Originally posted by paiktis22
You can feel what you want

This is not a troll. It's how it looked. Why does that surprises you?


Have you ever been there yourself Sava?

No, part of my great-uncle Dragy's family was trapped in East Germany until 1980. There's a reason so many people escaped those Soviet Bloc countries.

[Bereta_Eder]

Well I've been there and it looked fabulous

[Sava]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Well I've been there and it looked fabulous

Because all "undesirables" were probably rounded up by the Secret Police.

[Bereta_Eder]

I just say what I saw


On a relevant note the streets seemed relatively empty compared to west Berlin. (not that that was any difficult and compared to the chaotic wildness and drugged angst that prevailed in west Berlin, a very welcomed change to the casual visitor).

[Rogan Josh]

The first thing I can remember (news wise) was the Felklands War. (I do also remember Thatcher getting voted in which was a wee bit earlier, but not so historic.)

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


The Chernobyl meltdown was in 1986. Are you sure you remember it?

Yes, as I said, I mostly just remembered the effect it had on my family as they watched it on television. I have always had a vague memory of that event but didn't realise what it actually was untill seeing the same footage years later.