On 2013\05\12 12:38, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
Basil Jet
wrote in :

And since any
West German could get a visa to visit the east, knowledge of the charade
must have been common in the West.

Not very many West Germans took the opportunity.

Blixa Bargeld was asked in 1985 if he'd ever been to the other side and
he said "Yes, many times. Oh, the other side of Berlin... no."

To be fair to the Ossi's, TPTB in Britain think that the parts of
Britain seen by tourists have to be pretty, but the rest of it can look
like hell.

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