..and people lived in two countries, even thought the language was the same and the history their shared was quite common but different too. How the past made them living a live with borders and under the law and orders of others by many own mistakes. People had an idea of how the other side could be but surely most did never really knew. Not to mention all the countries next to them in east and west. Families where parted and places got a wall in the middle of a garden. Things were suddenly forbidden and stayed it for a very long time. Two systems did grow out of one big country after a war, who was called the world war 2.
And there was this big town, called Berlin who got a wall around its western side and so there was a wall right through the middle of this town.
People lived with it. Oh they did question this, died because of this crazy thing standing in the way.
Propaganda leaded a long way the thoughts of mankind in those two very different countries who represent two different system of politic. The capitalism and the socialism. At the end, none of them survived. None of them had really the common people in mind. But both were capable of war, even it was just a cold war but it did contain the rise of dangerous weapons and lies who are still in this world.
I was a child growing up in the eastern part of Berlin. I had my aunt in the western part and she came once every year to visit us but that never gave me an impression how her life was.
I just knew our way of living in the east with all the socialism and propaganda, even though I had parents who happened to be critical and so I had a hunch of that not everything was alright. I mean I was a teenager when the time came up that the wall should be fallen. Too young to understand what this could mean and to understand what the politics did, but I realized a bit this and that. I knew the punks in our street and I knew some areas has been forbidden. I grew up with soldiers walking in front of our garden as we had our garden near the wall. I was quite open minded as we had family living in the western world and so I knew that it could not be all just bad. They may tried to give a bad expression t.ex. about USA but I never really thought bad about them then. But most of us never knew how bad the situation in the eastern countries were, as this came up after the wall has been destroyed.
But back to the time it all began. The demonstration came into my mind through TV as in Berlin we were able to watch the west channels and as people later waited in Prag I had a feeling of something important was happening. I saw all those people fleeing into the west through Austria and even my bio- teacher went away that time. In school suddenly most of my friends started speaking up openly and we discussed what we knew and this was more or lesson different to the background we knew.
When it was clear the people could visit the west part, my family stayed home as in the beginning it was not clear if we could come back, but after two weeks, no one believed that the wall is going to be closed again. In the same time all the demonstration became bigger and so my family followed that. In the middle of Berlin I was there too. But mostly with the help of TV.
Nearly next to three weeks after the gates were open we went to the west part, taking the underground to visit my aunt. Strange feeling as so many people from the east went on to see how was it down there in the west sector.
Many things happened then good and bad and many people went blind by money and lies but mostly my family was clever enough to take it slow and to take the chances they could catch. We knew the industry was in no good health even know we did not expect it to be so much better then in Poland and Russia or the other eastern countries who broke down so deep that it was a big surprise for all.
I am by myself very grateful that this happened, because what would I do today? I don't know as people who were disabled were people of second class even in socialism. My choice of a job was poor, really poor and bad. I had to ask for a chance to move to another country, but what had happened to my family?
So... it was for me the best that could happen.
25 years ago and it's not a long time, even though for mankind it is.
25 years and so many things have changed and so many more mistakes have been done and so many chances have been gone for a country who should have known better, but so it is and the hard way is to take now. Well, could be worse.
25 years and I am no longer a child a teen but a man who looks back and wonders.
Send you all out there from the past and the future and the now
Love & Light
picture taken short time after the wall was broken
Keine Kommentare:
Kommentar veröffentlichen