Berlin between the east and the West.
Berlin between the east and the West.
40 YEARS ago, in August of 1961, in a live flesh of Berlin
The Wall ran. Without a narcosis. Having chopped 97 streets of a city, 6 branches
The underground, 10 areas of a city. It was possible to a party management of GDR
To save preparation for operation in the strict secret, and for inhabitants
Berlin it became the uttermost unexpectedness. A concrete embodiment
"Iron Curtain" within 28 years divided the east and the West,
Light communism and rotten capitalism, Germans and... Germans.
Ossi and vessi.
NOW - after more than 10 years after falling of a wall and
Associations of Germany - sociologists have come to the discouraging
To conclusion: a precipice between mentality of east and western Germans
More and more increases. "The wall - it still costs, - like
To speak Berliners, - here ", - and with a significant kind
Tap with a finger on a forehead. Townsmen at times still
Continue to divide each other on "ossi" (east Germans) and
"vessi" (western).
"I hate these words -" ossi "and" vessi ", - speaks Frantsiska,
25-year-old berlinka, working in one of hotels in the east
City parts. - it is strange, that nevertheless there are people who live
The past, any mutual abacus, biases. These eternal
Histories as we for the sake of bananas have punched the Berlin wall, that
East Germans lazy and ungrateful, that Berlin-Ost always
Was grey and dark... After all it is not true ".
"I - so-called vessi, - have smiled the taxi driver on mine
The question, from what part of a city it comes. - Want a joke on this
Subject? From what the God has created "ossi"? It is a little clay, it is a little sand,
It is a little dung... The Main thing - not to go too far in dung, and that
It will turn out "vessi". And still there is a weight baek about what we
Rich, but silly. I think, it from complexes, from 40 years
Poverty and fear once again to open a mouth not to get in
Prison. But here that really disturbs - that, on
To the official statistics, the number of neo-Nazis in Germany is prompt
Replenishes at the expense of youth from the east. First time I has gone in
The former GDR in five years - to come to see relatives. This most
In my life - as we passed terrible memoirs through
Border to East Berlin. While we were examined by frontier guards, I
Awfully was afraid, that now they will arrest my parents and I
I will remain one and I will die... As a result they have taken away from the father an audiocassette with
Record of any rock group also have passed us ".
European-quality repair.
In the city - despite the fact that what for the tourist, for example, already
It is very difficult to understand, it is in what part, - too while
There were "points nesoprikosnovenija". Mister Fihter, a script writer on
Trades, and at leisure earning additionally the guide, with
Impatience drums fingers on a wheel: "Well, give, now,
Today, be lighted! In east part traffic lights longer
Are switched are everyone knows. Very much irritates. And
In general, here somehow all for the present more slowly. Or here to take
Tram. In the Western Berlin this type of transport for a long time already have written off
On a dump, and here in any do not want - have got used. Though, of course,
City not to learn. We - in a status of enormous European-quality repair. Still
Many white stains to Berlin-Ost ". It is necessary to tell, updated
potsdamer Platts - a masterpiece of a modern modernist style. Glass and a steel
vysotok "Daimler Benz" and "Sleepyheads" with organically built in in
The most complicated architectural ensemble offices, restaurants,
Cinema halls - not to list. "Europe-centre" in the Western Berlin
(Remember, where Mimino vainly tried to buy a green crocodile)
Has a rest.
However, in the west - without changes. As the motley saunters
Crowd on Kurfjurstendamm... Many of inhabitants practically and not
Happen in east part of a city - there is no need. And of a wall reminds
Only double strip of the cobble-stones which have been soldered in in asphalt in the area of it
Passages. Yes a little left for edification of descendants
Wall sites in the original. The rest - has dispersed on all
To continents for memory of a victory over totalitarianism.
Time to collect stones.
FROM Australia to Honolulu - pieces and slices of the Berlin wall
It is possible to find in any parts of the world. It is said that only in their USA
More than in the Germany. Separate segments in height of 3,6 m and
It is powerful 2 tons stand in various museums, in a garden of the Pope in
Vatican, CIA building in Lengli, at Bill Gates - in office cafe
"Microsoft" in Washington. One American magnate right after
Wall dismantle suggested Germany to buy it all - for 50
Millions dollars. To it, clearly, have given up. And here the enterprising
The adjuster-builder has made of Berlin F.Pavlovski on history ruins
Good business. Its concrete souvenirs stand from 2 to 15 000 stamps
Depending on the size. Such production he also sells on 40
Thousand pieces a year. However, graffiti on its souvenirs - not
Original, and own manufacturing from a spray, but
After all the main thing - that a wall present. Though who knows?
There is a segment of the Berlin wall and in Russia, it costs in Moscow
Near to A.D.Saharova's Museum. And one more piece - passed
The Berlin museum in gift for an exhibition on Crimean to a shaft, after it
Closings... Has evaporated. Completely. Whether who on a summer residence has brought, whether
Where on a dump lays.
The Berlin wall:
- Construction from superstrong concrete: length of 106 km, height 3,6
M, 302 towers of supervision, 20 bunkers, 259 posts with dogs,
Along a wall - the shined control strip, so-called
"A death strip". Frontier guards had the right to shoot to defeat;
- Successful attempts of flight through a wall on the West - 5075;
- It is arrested at illegal transition of border - 3200 persons;
- Victims at a wall - on different data, from 100 to 240 persons
(The exact quantity of victims coded by GDR, still is found out);
- 600 tons of the concrete dismantled in 1990 used for
Buildings of roads in uniform Germany;
- 20 % of the western Berliners and 14 % east, agree sotsoprosam,
Would like, that Berlin have divided a wall again.
Victoria SHKAROVSKY, Berlin - Moscow.
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//* an information Source: Arguments and the facts, 8.08.01
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