History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Okay, NATO expanded to East Berlin and East Germany. Under [Bill] Clinton NATO expanded further, to the former Russian satellites. In 2008… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact,… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
The Germans are often too bureaucratic, too fixated on rules and not risk-oriented enough. And some of their officials have the feeling… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound… — Bob Simon Copy Share Image
The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my… — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
[Mikhail] Gorbachev complained. He was told look, there's nothing on paper. People didn't actually say it but the implication was look, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Mikhail] Gorbachev said that he would agree to the unification of Germany, and even adherence of Germany to NATO, which was quite… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few… — Christian Schwochow Copy Share Image
The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So… — Anne Elizabeth Moore Copy Share Image
President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
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