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On Nov. 9, 1989, in the early evening we were sitting at home in West-Berlin (W.B.) and watched, like every day, the news in the East TV. One report went to a press conference in East-Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a.k.a. East Germany. There on the end of the conference one leading figure of the ruling Socialist Unity party of Germany (SED) was reading from a small piece of paper that from “right now” all citizens of the GDR are permitted to visit the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, a.k.a. West Germany), including Berlin (West) without any restrictions. We were sitting there and only wondering, what was happen right now - that must be just a mistake! But later when we went to downtown W.B. we saw the first East cars with East German plates... and we knew: the wall was falling, definitely! Later in the night to the 10th of Nov. We went to a pub were we met a lot of friends and comrades – and everyone was happy. Everyone was sure that Germany, reunificated soon, will enter a new lucky era. A friend of mine and me we were arguing against it, that especially the East, perhaps will enter an era of "Blood, Sweat and Tears". But no one wanted to listen, on one agreed. Only few months late, on Oct. 3, 1990, logical the two German states were reunited. Now, 15 years later - what is the consequence of the German reunification? Thousands of factories, companies were terminated because the became/were not "marketable", or they just became potential rivals for the West companies (according to the official East German statistic the GDR was the 10th "strongest" industrial state in Europe, at least in the East economic Block it was on the first place in the industrial development). In this process hundred thousands of workers lost their jobs in the East. Entire regions just deserted and desolated. In many regions the unemployment rate is now over 20 %. Until now 2,000,000 people migrated from the East to the West to find work and new homes. In some regions you can see today only old and stupid people... and a lot of neo-fascists. In many regions the fascists are ruling the daily public life now. Between Elbe and Oder (the two border rivers in the West and the East of the former GDR) the new brown (“neobraun”, brown is the symbolic color for the fascist movement) grass root revolution is coming slowly, but continuously .”, yesterday the “famous”, but bourgeois German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel wrote. Anyway... What they have now in the East, an area were everyone can do what ever he/she want. They can move to the West to earn a lot of money or just to life normal. They can move even to the US or to Australia, or wherever... A clean country they left... Before, during the time of the GDR there was nearly everywhere an ecological disaster... Now all this regions are complete clean. The most of the inner cities are complete reconstructed and renewed... But no one want to life anymore there... Visitors from the West, who want to see the beautiful nature, the nice reconstructed old cities in the East are fearing because of criminal, fascist gangs who are attacking everyone who comes from outside, no matter if they come from West-Berlin (actually it is not existing anymore, because now we are a part of East Germany...), Hamburg, Beijing or Seoul.. Finally it is just a lost place, deserted by millions of people... The entire operation of the unification, inclusive the results I wrote about, was a process of “Blood, Sweat and Tears” and it is not finished yet.. But on the other side, only because of the falling of the wall we came to the idea to show N. Korean movies in Europe, as a kind of a trash show (before, especially in West-Berlin we were surrounded by trash states and no one was interested in their “culture”), we got the possibility to visit Pyeongyang and later I got the possibility to visit the other side of the iron curtain in Korea, during PIFF 2001 and I had the great experience to meet... (aehhh.. this another story...) I think just because of that I got the possibility to join the struggles in S. Korea... PS... The entire shit, the unification, they, the Germans, got for the price of only 1,500,000,000,000 Euro. And of course mainly the ordinary tax payers were, are paying for it! And they are not finished with paying... Its just an endless, but expensive fun... Aeh... actually its just a fun for the capitalist class...