Bratwurst Boy
3 Mar 2019
History / History of two Neighbors: Poland - Germany Interrelations [283]
...still an unrealistic vision. Totally disregarding the fact that East Germany never was an independent state...forty years of communist indoctrination couldn't it make it so in the mind of the people.
It always was only a soviet zone of occupation of Germany cut out forcefully, against the will of the people, only kept alive with a stone wall and the military.
But then please do so with all of Europe...good luck with reshuffling the borders.
Just look back before WWII...East Germany was then not the "far" East but Mitteldeutschland...in many ways the scientific and cultural german mainland.
Bavaria for example was only rural, agrarian backyard.
It became the wild East after 40 years of isolation...not of free will!
...still an unrealistic vision. Totally disregarding the fact that East Germany never was an independent state...forty years of communist indoctrination couldn't it make it so in the mind of the people.
It always was only a soviet zone of occupation of Germany cut out forcefully, against the will of the people, only kept alive with a stone wall and the military.
If we moved back in time to, say, the year 1100,
But then please do so with all of Europe...good luck with reshuffling the borders.
Just look back before WWII...East Germany was then not the "far" East but Mitteldeutschland...in many ways the scientific and cultural german mainland.
Bavaria for example was only rural, agrarian backyard.
It became the wild East after 40 years of isolation...not of free will!
