Monday, October 01, 2007

There Are Walls--And Then There Are WALLS

Unlike Palestinian Arabs, East Germans like their wall--and they want it back. Not sure what to make of this; just wanted to point it out.
ONE in five Germans would like to have the Berlin Wall back, according to a poll released ahead of the 17th anniversary of German reunification.

Nineteen percent of respondents surveyed said the country was better off while it was divided, while 75 percent said they were glad the Wall that kept easterners captives of the communist bloc for 28 years had fallen.

Remarkably, a full 21 percent of the country's 16.7 million easterners felt nostalgic about the concrete, barbed wire and armed guards that separated them from the west.
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