I remember this so clearly. We were watching it on TV in New Zealand & drinking. We rang a random West Berlin phone number & got a guy who worked in a camera store. We talked for 20 or so minutes about what was happening on the street outside. This is THE biggest world event to happen in my lifetime: people kicking communism to the curb permanently. Wonderful. Wunderbar!!! 🇩🇪
It wasn't communism. It was literally fascism. But instead of it being one dictator... It was the State as a whole. Communism still hasn't - in it's pure form - been done by ANY government. Or are you seriously proclaiming the Soviets were following Karl Marx philosophical arguments? Come on....and how is this any worse that the ultracapitalist Oligarchs of Russia and America now?
@@jenniferchurley617 A West Berliner who a week later was "just a Berliner". We honestly thought the Cold War would end in a nuclear holocaust, Europe would be in ruins & Russia was an irresistible force. Then the world changed. There was hope. Unification. A post-Cold War detente. Putin ruined that. Biden, talking shit, has pushed us back to the brink of nuclear war - and Germany again stands in the cross hairs of a proxy war between the Kremlin & Wall St. Germany's existence is once again threatened: by the grandchildren of those who seized the Kremlin & those who run the Federal Reserve & Wall St. History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes..
I spent the summer of '94 in Berlin, and Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte (among other hoods) were full of squats and illegal clubs. Dunckerstraße 14 was an entire apartment block of squats, and it was glorious; it became our Friday-night custom after a night of clubbing to go to the roof of 14, smoke a joint, and catch the sunrise over Alexander Platz. An amazing time to be there. I went to Tacheles many times, and it still makes me very sad that it's no longer there. I went back in 2016 to see some friends and tbh it was really depressing, it was so different.
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Being in DDR in 1988 as a tourist i remember how gray it was..it was slightly evident that the young east germans were not happy with the system..unfortunately and being foreigner and part of a tour the chances to socialize with the natives were almost null..one year after the wall fell down ..but this is another history..
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I visited shortly after the wall opened (I was teaching in Poland). I couldn’t believe how many of the buildings still looked like they must have looked in May 1945. So many still had WW2 bomb damage.
Watched it unfold from Toronto. While I was crying with happiness, my Polish friend thought it was the end of the world. I had a friend who happened to be in Berlin at the time. I always thought she was exaggerating a bit, but she was part of the club scene. Makes me think some of her stories were true.
Turbonegro im Tacheles war ein unglaublich geiles Konzert, damals kannte noch kein Schwein diese Band.Kann sich noch jemand an den Eimer erinnern, heutzutage undenkbar die Lokation, die geilste Zeit für Punkrock 😚
Motte who claims to have invented techno but actually as his ex admitted got hold of rave music records from the UK from British service personnel stationed in West Berlin, and listened to Dave Mason on Thursday evenings on BFBS. In the UK we already had techno back in the late 80s and there is lots of footage of raves in the UK in 1988 and 1989, strangely zero footage of these supposed techno parties in Berlin. Even if you look for footage of the first Love Parade in Berlin 1989, most is from the mid 90s and mendaciously titled as being from 1989. The real 1989 Love Parade footage is about 100 people following a car, many of them punks and guys in mullets, and a few bemused shoppers. STOLEN VALOUR!
The Easterners became lesser thans in their own county, as the Western rich bought their country on the cheap. Now they cant afford rent in Berlin because of profiteers and the Germans are being pushed to fight the Russians.
Warum sind die Hintermänner der Deutschen „homo sovieticus“? Im Vereinigten Deutschland gibt es alles, was das Herz begehrt. In Polen vermisst kein normaler Mensch die Polnische Volksrepublik.
What is it you want back? The Stasi? The surveillance? The imprisonments, disappearances, torture? The dilapidation and decay? The worthless products? The lack of freedom? The ban on travel? The bankrupt state? The shootings of innocent people making a dash for freedom?
@@maciejwisniewski760 Glaube gehr eher darum, dass der Osten seinen eigenen Staat unabhängig von der BRD aufbauen hätte sollen, so wie es Polen oder Estland in den 90er gemacht haben, oder die BRD und die DDR hätten einen neuen gemeinsamen Staat aufbauen sollen welcher West- und Ostdeutschland übernehmen sollte.
@Valentine847 Beginnen wir mit der Tatsache, dass die DDR ebenso wie die Volksrepublik Polen bankrott war. Die Branche war sehr rückständig. Während es sich in der Volksrepublik Polen größtenteils um westliche Lizenzen aus den 1970er Jahren handelte, handelte es sich bei Trabants und Wartburgs in der DDR technisch um eine Weiterentwicklung von Vorkriegsautos. Ich bezweifle, dass sich damals irgendjemand für solch veraltete Fahrzeuge interessiert hätte. Wir haben uns an das Internet, Smartphones, MP3 und andere technische Errungenschaften gewöhnt. In Ländern wie der DDR oder der Volksrepublik Polen würden solche technologischen Errungenschaften mit erheblicher Verzögerung eingeführt. Ich vergleiche Polen immer mit Ostdeutschland. Mitte der 1990er Jahre wurden in Polen keine russischen Autos mehr verkauft. Mittlerweile sehe ich in Deutschland oft neue russische Autos mit deutschen Nummernschildern. Für mich ist das seltsam. Ähnlich war es zu Zeiten der Volksrepublik Polen und der DDR. In Polen gab es mehr westliche Autos. Das verärgerte die Menschen in der DDR oft. Als Pole kann ich diese Sehnsucht nach der DDR und dem Ostlager nicht verstehen. Dies wird manchmal mit dem „Schtokholm-Syndrom“ erklärt. In Polen gibt niemand Kindern russische Namen. Mittlerweile erfreuen sie sich auch in Ostdeutschland großer Beliebtheit.
I remember this so clearly. We were watching it on TV in New Zealand & drinking. We rang a random West Berlin phone number & got a guy who worked in a camera store. We talked for 20 or so minutes about what was happening on the street outside. This is THE biggest world event to happen in my lifetime: people kicking communism to the curb permanently. Wonderful. Wunderbar!!! 🇩🇪
It wasn't communism. It was literally fascism. But instead of it being one dictator... It was the State as a whole. Communism still hasn't - in it's pure form - been done by ANY government. Or are you seriously proclaiming the Soviets were following Karl Marx philosophical arguments?
Come on....and how is this any worse that the ultracapitalist Oligarchs of Russia and America now?
Schön!
That so cool that you called and spoke to a West Berliner at the time.
@@jenniferchurley617 A West Berliner who a week later was "just a Berliner". We honestly thought the Cold War would end in a nuclear holocaust, Europe would be in ruins & Russia was an irresistible force. Then the world changed. There was hope. Unification. A post-Cold War detente. Putin ruined that. Biden, talking shit, has pushed us back to the brink of nuclear war - and Germany again stands in the cross hairs of a proxy war between the Kremlin & Wall St.
Germany's existence is once again threatened: by the grandchildren of those who seized the Kremlin & those who run the Federal Reserve & Wall St. History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes..
I spent the summer of '94 in Berlin, and Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte (among other hoods) were full of squats and illegal clubs. Dunckerstraße 14 was an entire apartment block of squats, and it was glorious; it became our Friday-night custom after a night of clubbing to go to the roof of 14, smoke a joint, and catch the sunrise over Alexander Platz. An amazing time to be there. I went to Tacheles many times, and it still makes me very sad that it's no longer there. I went back in 2016 to see some friends and tbh it was really depressing, it was so different.
Being in DDR in 1988 as a tourist i remember how gray it was..it was slightly evident that the young east germans were not happy with the system..unfortunately and being foreigner and part of a tour the chances to socialize with the natives were almost null..one year after the wall fell down ..but this is another history..
Watch next 📺 On the Trail of Prisoner-of-War Fathers
Their fathers were American airmen shot down during the Second World War and taken prisoner by the Nazis. Many spoke very little about their traumatic experiences of captivity. Nearly 80 years later, five of their children travel to Germany and Poland to see for themselves the places that are inextricably linked to their family history.
See it here 👉ruclips.net/video/cXe2f6kMBJ4/видео.html
I visited shortly after the wall opened (I was teaching in Poland). I couldn’t believe how many of the buildings still looked like they must have looked in May 1945. So many still had WW2 bomb damage.
Watched it unfold from Toronto. While I was crying with happiness, my Polish friend thought it was the end of the world. I had a friend who happened to be in Berlin at the time. I always thought she was exaggerating a bit, but she was part of the club scene. Makes me think some of her stories were true.
Turbonegro im Tacheles war ein unglaublich geiles Konzert, damals kannte noch kein Schwein diese Band.Kann sich noch jemand an den Eimer erinnern, heutzutage undenkbar die Lokation, die geilste Zeit für Punkrock 😚
Hab's miterlebt als 14 jaehriger Knirps ! Sowas passiert nicht oft im Leben. War ne super coole Zeit ab 1990.
Bartender with sunshine ray camo, cool!
Schone doku!
29:16 is that alt-J hard drive gold?
"...permits every citizen of East Germany to leave the country."
East Germany: "Don't mind if I do."
Motte who claims to have invented techno but actually as his ex admitted got hold of rave music records from the UK from British service personnel stationed in West Berlin, and listened to Dave Mason on Thursday evenings on BFBS. In the UK we already had techno back in the late 80s and there is lots of footage of raves in the UK in 1988 and 1989, strangely zero footage of these supposed techno parties in Berlin. Even if you look for footage of the first Love Parade in Berlin 1989, most is from the mid 90s and mendaciously titled as being from 1989. The real 1989 Love Parade footage is about 100 people following a car, many of them punks and guys in mullets, and a few bemused shoppers. STOLEN VALOUR!
Das Jahr der Freiheit, welcher heute nicht mehr existiert.
Spannende Doku, aber bitte nicht SPD als socialists übersetzen….
It was a tragedy. I said it at the time... and now people are starting to realize. The bad side always win.
The Easterners became lesser thans in their own county, as the Western rich bought their country on the cheap. Now they cant afford rent in Berlin because of profiteers and the Germans are being pushed to fight the Russians.
Ärbeitsschutzgesetz? Coolnes weg!!!
Ich möchte bitte meine DDR zurück haben !!
Warum sind die Hintermänner der Deutschen „homo sovieticus“? Im Vereinigten Deutschland gibt es alles, was das Herz begehrt. In Polen vermisst kein normaler Mensch die Polnische Volksrepublik.
What is it you want back? The Stasi? The surveillance? The imprisonments, disappearances, torture? The dilapidation and decay? The worthless products? The lack of freedom? The ban on travel? The bankrupt state? The shootings of innocent people making a dash for freedom?
😂 Kauf dir Eine !
🇪🇺🇩🇪
@@maciejwisniewski760 Glaube gehr eher darum, dass der Osten seinen eigenen Staat unabhängig von der BRD aufbauen hätte sollen, so wie es Polen oder Estland in den 90er gemacht haben, oder die BRD und die DDR hätten einen neuen gemeinsamen Staat aufbauen sollen welcher West- und Ostdeutschland übernehmen sollte.
@Valentine847 Beginnen wir mit der Tatsache, dass die DDR ebenso wie die Volksrepublik Polen bankrott war. Die Branche war sehr rückständig. Während es sich in der Volksrepublik Polen größtenteils um westliche Lizenzen aus den 1970er Jahren handelte, handelte es sich bei Trabants und Wartburgs in der DDR technisch um eine Weiterentwicklung von Vorkriegsautos. Ich bezweifle, dass sich damals irgendjemand für solch veraltete Fahrzeuge interessiert hätte. Wir haben uns an das Internet, Smartphones, MP3 und andere technische Errungenschaften gewöhnt. In Ländern wie der DDR oder der Volksrepublik Polen würden solche technologischen Errungenschaften mit erheblicher Verzögerung eingeführt. Ich vergleiche Polen immer mit Ostdeutschland. Mitte der 1990er Jahre wurden in Polen keine russischen Autos mehr verkauft. Mittlerweile sehe ich in Deutschland oft neue russische Autos mit deutschen Nummernschildern. Für mich ist das seltsam. Ähnlich war es zu Zeiten der Volksrepublik Polen und der DDR. In Polen gab es mehr westliche Autos. Das verärgerte die Menschen in der DDR oft. Als Pole kann ich diese Sehnsucht nach der DDR und dem Ostlager nicht verstehen. Dies wird manchmal mit dem „Schtokholm-Syndrom“ erklärt. In Polen gibt niemand Kindern russische Namen. Mittlerweile erfreuen sie sich auch in Ostdeutschland großer Beliebtheit.