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this has been said a few times already and quite well i might add, but the German people just seemed to want the good sucessful times back. really good evidence of this is that in Berlin there was not a wall incasing west belin for many years. so you had people that thought communisms was going to be everything that it was cracked up to be. it wasn't until people saw how their neighbors under democracy were doing better (there are many reasons for this that i am not going to go into but i don't mean to attack anyones stand). once the people wanted change it was put down with force that i beleive was the day that many east berliners at least lost faith in that economic system so it became necisary to containt those that were a "bad" influence on your population. it's kind of sad the way things went but it is history and we have to know it.
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