Thanks for sharing your story. I taught English in Berlin for a few months a couple of years after the wall had come down. I had several IBM classes in both east and west Berlin. One young west Berliner introduced himself to me like this: "I'm XXX and I want the wall back and six metres higher!" Meanwhile, some of the east Berliners told me that west Germans were arrogant. It was an interesting time to live in Berlin.
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Oh I see, that's quite a story to tell!
I can see the looks on those East Berliners right now haha, kinda scruffy, a strange mix of things & styles...
Ever come across the term "Die Krufties"? I've been to WHT Treffen in Leipzig 4-5 times, a totally wild festival that originated from that bunch.
And also the DDR had a real American Indian phase in the early seventies, just like the West...
Is that "Wave-Gotik-Treffen"?
Ah yes, I remember that they took their Wild West pretty seriously - wasn't all that inspired by Karl May's novels?
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Yes it is :-) I'll get around to posting about that, maybe late this summer.
I can't remember the details about the last part, but there is content out there.
It was one of the very few outlets DDR slaves had, it was hard for the Marxists to dislodge since American Indians by default are anti-imperial, indigenous victims.
Now or course I do not have those thoughts myself, just saying that within the ideology this was how it was.