I hope the DPRK isn't ruined like the former GDR was. I was fortunate to travel by train from Frankfurt, West Germany thru East Germany to Berlin in 1965.
Re: North Korea Is The BEST Korea!
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:55 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
dales wrote:I hope the DPRK isn't ruined like the former GDR was. I was fortunate to travel by train from Frankfurt, West Germany thru East Germany to Berlin in 1965.
I went to Berlin in 1975. We drove but you could not stop along the highway and if you broke down they told you to stay in your car until the police came.
Re: North Korea Is The BEST Korea!
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:10 pm
by dales
oldr.....did the East Berliners still have the fake storefronts (the ones with all the fake goods for sale) facing the wall towards West Berlin in 1975?
Re: North Korea Is The BEST Korea!
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:22 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
On the other side of "no mans land" yes they did. I think some of the empty apartment buildings even had curtains painted on the boarded up windows. (or was that the south bronx? )
Re: North Korea Is The BEST Korea!
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:50 pm
by dales
oldr.....if you ever get the chance, watch a movie called "Goodbye Lenin" it's the story of a family adopting to the fall of Communism in East Berlin. I have it on VHS.
Re: North Korea Is The BEST Korea!
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:57 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I'll have to check it out.
I had relatives (grandmothers cousin or something like that) living in East Germany til the wall came down. Also my grandmothers sister and husband left everything behind in the late 50's(?) early 60's and got out while they could as they heard the wall was going up. Crawled under barbed wire and eluded patrols to get out. They settled in Hamburg and we spent a weekend with them when we were there. Very nice people, gone now.
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