I’m the same age as Juli and grew up in far away Australia, oblivious to the living standards - the way of life - that the people living behind the Iron Curtain endured. The passage of time has informed and educated to an extent the standard of living, but it’s still sobering to hear it first hand from someone who has actually ‘lived’ it. Thanks for telling your story 👍
What a well told story, it was fascinating to hear from the point of view of a young girl. Her excitement at buying a pair of jeans. Also her adventurous spirit in travelling and then starting life in Ireland. Fascinating.
I'd be very surprised if a military doctor didn't treat a patient for deserting to see his newborn daughter. It really feels like this might be worth looking into because there's something weird about it.
To Americans loath communism, the kgb wqs menacing, but the stasi and how they got family, friends and neighbors to inform and spy on others to the point where informers would actually marry a target for no other reason than to compile a dossier on their spouse, was a terrifying idea to us. The stasi in our minds was the worst...an orwellian nightmare made reality. We understood that not even the kgb was so insidious in the records they kept on their people. Nothing is more horrible to us than for a communist secret police to infiltrate every aspect of life and break the bondsnwmn̈n̈ family and trust. Ź
Emotionally-charged, subjective accounts like this should always be taken with a grain of salt. We're getting one side of the story from someone who obviously has an axe to grind.
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I’m the same age as Juli and grew up in far away Australia, oblivious to the living standards - the way of life - that the people living behind the Iron Curtain endured. The passage of time has informed and educated to an extent the standard of living, but it’s still sobering to hear it first hand from someone who has actually ‘lived’ it. Thanks for telling your story 👍
What a well told story, it was fascinating to hear from the point of view of a young girl. Her excitement at buying a pair of jeans. Also her adventurous spirit in travelling and then starting life in Ireland. Fascinating.
Thanks for listening. It was an honour to record Juli’s story.
I'd be very surprised if a military doctor didn't treat a patient for deserting to see his newborn daughter. It really feels like this might be worth looking into because there's something weird about it.
Indeed. I think the truth was that in the medical examination after the accident they discovered untreatable cancer.
Yes, as with many of these "freedom seeker" stories, we're getting a very one-sided and biased account.
To Americans loath communism, the kgb wqs menacing, but the stasi and how they got family, friends and neighbors to inform and spy on others to the point where informers would actually marry a target for no other reason than to compile a dossier on their spouse, was a terrifying idea to us.
The stasi in our minds was the worst...an orwellian nightmare made reality. We understood that not even the kgb was so insidious in the records they kept on their people.
Nothing is more horrible to us than for a communist secret police to infiltrate every aspect of life and break the bondsnwmn̈n̈ family and trust. Ź
Emotionally-charged, subjective accounts like this should always be taken with a grain of salt. We're getting one side of the story from someone who obviously has an axe to grind.