Filip Stefanovic
is said that to really admire the mountain is not the secret to gain the top, but away from it to frame the entire giant: a 'image that lends itself well to the story, where the shiny objects and ability to follow and unravel its many rows are always slower to steal the material itself.
So we find ourselves today, November 9, 2009, to look with admiration and astonishment to this day twenty years ago, when one night was enough to cancel that Iron Curtain, named for the first time the words of Winston Churchill in 1946 [*]. But what was, what he really represented that '89 could perhaps just as its counterpart of two centuries earlier, that of the French Revolution, to disrupt both the European and then global structures? Why the curious fact is that the farther we get from our mountain, the more it seems that something does not come back, and had to share the impressions we now seem if not erroneous, at least partially. The reunification of Germany is This was really an approximation, or perhaps it is better to speak of Anschluss, the annexation by Germany's defeat winning over his sister? The images that often these days we see on our screens, that night in celebration of every bank in Berlin and laugh and hug each other, maybe they do not pair with the less famous of the spring of 1991, where throngs of Germans of the same ' East jubilant for the future unification of the previous six months, protesters furious hours? The workers, because the free market had produced 3 million unemployed, given the inability of the competitive goods produced in the GDR, the tenants, because the privatization of the houses had resulted in rents astronomical for their economies, the housewives, as prices were liberalized weighed in in a more than exponential ... The social devastation following the fall of the GDR was not only sudden, but almost complete. Ed'alto Free education level, job security, certain retirement, housing, items were taken for granted, and although the relatively low wage levels and household wealth is absolutely inaccessible to western standards, it was not certain that would never go hungry. It is very difficult to draw a monochrome picture of East German reality, and most times you fall into stereotypical traps, the Trabant to the Stasi.
And what is that Trabant Stasi may be representative and characteristic of socialism, it is equally wrong to forget that they lived in East Germany 17 million people, often more than satisfactory. In fact, we must pay great attention to judge the subjective and the objective reality in our analysis because the error that you make most often, is to translate the sentence of a one-party regime and illiberal lifestyle of those who grew up in that regime and lived. The most obvious evidence of this misunderstanding has blossomed over the past decade, with the advent of so-called Ostalgie, a term that identifies the nostalgia for all what was in the East, and the life behind the Wall. Alienation and a sense of bewilderment in many, especially among older people, have lived since 1989 has suffered a further blow to the inability of West Germans (and more generally throughout the West ) to separate the condemnation of a system from that of a people, and the life of this people: all that was revealed to the West is right, everything that came from East wrong, so who had lived on one side only had teach, who was on the other hand could only, like the prodigal son, redeem, convert, and as soon as the well-being, happy child of capitalism.
If we, however, the case that capitalism enters crisis? When social inequality grows over time, when the poor are getting poorer and their own condition misconduct, as well as the sentence they have no chance in life? When this happens - and is happening - it is normal that many people will look behind, to reconsider their past, when differences between classes were very mild, when engineers and workers went on holiday together and the profession was not an obstacle to social even the money, the sense of community and mutual assistance functions more pronounced. DDR was, after all, the pride of this experiment, social, economic and political that goes under the name of real socialism, the most successful example of an alternative system to the U.S., without a single dollar of the Marshall Plan had already failed within the first 60 to be among the ten most industrialized countries in the world while losing towards the end of the decade in question, the pace, especially as regards the production of consumer goods.
taking refuge in memories, are incredibly less paradoxical, or if only minor, then the inconsistencies, the fact that to get a car, the only one available, spend an average of 15 years, you could not even choose the color, what ARRIVED. Today, however, the manufacturers are tens, hundreds models, the various combinations thousands. But if you remain unemployed, what reduces the choice? Once the show was not only forbidden, but is in danger of being left with a police personnel file only for telling a joke. Today there is freedom of expression, but what good is protest if nothing changes? Do not get me wrong, this is not a nostalgic speech, nor is it feasible or desirable sol'anche return to such a system. But it is honest to admit that the problems experienced by East Germans were not happy as the snow melted in the sun, the wall collapsed that obscured the rays, but even after years have gangrene, and in some twenty years November 9 from that still feel alien, a foreign state that is not theirs. The high levels of unemployment, economic stagnation, emigration much more pronounced than in the rest of the country, whole ghost town abandoned by young people and turned into dorms for the elderly, are the most obvious sign that something has gone wrong, and that the regret of a recent past are probably not the result of romantic nostalgia of the real needs remain unfulfilled.
What has resulted, then, 1989? The shock which produced up to where they penetrate? Were bedded at all? We have only to look at the territory of the former Yugoslavia to give a negative answer. The smiles, the sighs of relief, tears of joy and hugs of that fateful night preceding two years less than other images of battered houses, fire, columns of refugees, tortured bodies, swollen city razed to the ground (Vukovar), other beleaguered ( Sarajevo), as we have not seen on European soil since the Second World War. Today, therefore, when we think back to that day twenty years ago, as well as celebrate the end of the nightmare of the Cold War, we keep in mind that not all of his knots were loose, not all questions were born between those concrete blocks broken pickaxe to have been answered, and yet between the answers given, not all proved to be accurate. It is from this premise that must flow awareness that there is still much to do because Europe is a free and fair, and that not only have a few decades, but perhaps not enough to see many first made the idea of \u200b\u200bcommon home who in 1989 had seemed for a moment, a mirage so close.
[*] <> http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/Fulton.html
is said that to really admire the mountain is not the secret to gain the top, but away from it to frame the entire giant: a 'image that lends itself well to the story, where the shiny objects and ability to follow and unravel its many rows are always slower to steal the material itself. So we find ourselves today, November 9, 2009, to look with admiration and astonishment to this day twenty years ago, when one night was enough to cancel that Iron Curtain, named for the first time the words of Winston Churchill in 1946 [*]. But what was, what he really represented that '89 could perhaps just as its counterpart of two centuries earlier, that of the French Revolution, to disrupt both the European and then global structures? Why the curious fact is that the farther we get from our mountain, the more it seems that something does not come back, and had to share the impressions we now seem if not erroneous, at least partially. The reunification of Germany is This was really an approximation, or perhaps it is better to speak of Anschluss, the annexation by Germany's defeat winning over his sister? The images that often these days we see on our screens, that night in celebration of every bank in Berlin and laugh and hug each other, maybe they do not pair with the less famous of the spring of 1991, where throngs of Germans of the same ' East jubilant for the future unification of the previous six months, protesters furious hours? The workers, because the free market had produced 3 million unemployed, given the inability of the competitive goods produced in the GDR, the tenants, because the privatization of the houses had resulted in rents astronomical for their economies, the housewives, as prices were liberalized weighed in in a more than exponential ... The social devastation following the fall of the GDR was not only sudden, but almost complete. Ed'alto Free education level, job security, certain retirement, housing, items were taken for granted, and although the relatively low wage levels and household wealth is absolutely inaccessible to western standards, it was not certain that would never go hungry. It is very difficult to draw a monochrome picture of East German reality, and most times you fall into stereotypical traps, the Trabant to the Stasi.
And what is that Trabant Stasi may be representative and characteristic of socialism, it is equally wrong to forget that they lived in East Germany 17 million people, often more than satisfactory. In fact, we must pay great attention to judge the subjective and the objective reality in our analysis because the error that you make most often, is to translate the sentence of a one-party regime and illiberal lifestyle of those who grew up in that regime and lived. The most obvious evidence of this misunderstanding has blossomed over the past decade, with the advent of so-called Ostalgie, a term that identifies the nostalgia for all what was in the East, and the life behind the Wall. Alienation and a sense of bewilderment in many, especially among older people, have lived since 1989 has suffered a further blow to the inability of West Germans (and more generally throughout the West ) to separate the condemnation of a system from that of a people, and the life of this people: all that was revealed to the West is right, everything that came from East wrong, so who had lived on one side only had teach, who was on the other hand could only, like the prodigal son, redeem, convert, and as soon as the well-being, happy child of capitalism. If we, however, the case that capitalism enters crisis? When social inequality grows over time, when the poor are getting poorer and their own condition misconduct, as well as the sentence they have no chance in life? When this happens - and is happening - it is normal that many people will look behind, to reconsider their past, when differences between classes were very mild, when engineers and workers went on holiday together and the profession was not an obstacle to social even the money, the sense of community and mutual assistance functions more pronounced. DDR was, after all, the pride of this experiment, social, economic and political that goes under the name of real socialism, the most successful example of an alternative system to the U.S., without a single dollar of the Marshall Plan had already failed within the first 60 to be among the ten most industrialized countries in the world while losing towards the end of the decade in question, the pace, especially as regards the production of consumer goods.
taking refuge in memories, are incredibly less paradoxical, or if only minor, then the inconsistencies, the fact that to get a car, the only one available, spend an average of 15 years, you could not even choose the color, what ARRIVED. Today, however, the manufacturers are tens, hundreds models, the various combinations thousands. But if you remain unemployed, what reduces the choice? Once the show was not only forbidden, but is in danger of being left with a police personnel file only for telling a joke. Today there is freedom of expression, but what good is protest if nothing changes? Do not get me wrong, this is not a nostalgic speech, nor is it feasible or desirable sol'anche return to such a system. But it is honest to admit that the problems experienced by East Germans were not happy as the snow melted in the sun, the wall collapsed that obscured the rays, but even after years have gangrene, and in some twenty years November 9 from that still feel alien, a foreign state that is not theirs. The high levels of unemployment, economic stagnation, emigration much more pronounced than in the rest of the country, whole ghost town abandoned by young people and turned into dorms for the elderly, are the most obvious sign that something has gone wrong, and that the regret of a recent past are probably not the result of romantic nostalgia of the real needs remain unfulfilled. What has resulted, then, 1989? The shock which produced up to where they penetrate? Were bedded at all? We have only to look at the territory of the former Yugoslavia to give a negative answer. The smiles, the sighs of relief, tears of joy and hugs of that fateful night preceding two years less than other images of battered houses, fire, columns of refugees, tortured bodies, swollen city razed to the ground (Vukovar), other beleaguered ( Sarajevo), as we have not seen on European soil since the Second World War. Today, therefore, when we think back to that day twenty years ago, as well as celebrate the end of the nightmare of the Cold War, we keep in mind that not all of his knots were loose, not all questions were born between those concrete blocks broken pickaxe to have been answered, and yet between the answers given, not all proved to be accurate. It is from this premise that must flow awareness that there is still much to do because Europe is a free and fair, and that not only have a few decades, but perhaps not enough to see many first made the idea of \u200b\u200bcommon home who in 1989 had seemed for a moment, a mirage so close.
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