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Walls and bullets too, don't forget that. Communists were not shy to kill their own people looking to escape the "wonders" of their system. Barbed wire on the
by nickpp 6y ago
Walls and bullets too, don't forget that. Communists were not shy to kill their own people looking to escape the "wonders" of their system.
Barbed wire on the borders, bullets shot without warning at swimmers trying to cross freezing rivers, then families held hostage and tortured to punish and warn escapees - oh Communism was such an awesome experience, I can only wish it from the bottom of my heart to all its apologists.
- WalterBright 6y agoSome years back a socialist told me that the Berlin Wall was to keep westerners out of East Berlin. I told him that I'd visited the Wall in 1969, passed through it and had a tour of East Berlin, seen the Wall museum, been on the platforms overlooking the wall, had East German guards wave at me, etc. In a sense it is both good and bad that the Wall has been erased, people forget what it was like. Nobody should forget.