The Soviet Union tried to stop people from leaving the Eastern Bloc to live in non-communist places. From 1952, the Soviets tried to close the inner border between capitalist (West) Germany and communist (East) Germany. But there remained an emigration loophole in …

Dossier: What life was like in communist East Germany. East Germans worked, cooked dinner and spent time with family and friends just like West Germans did. …

This is What Life was Like in Communist East Germany. Tim Flight - December 18, 2019. Strange Soviet customs, such as The Socialist Fraternal Kiss being enjoyed here by Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in 1979, were widely mocked. Blogspot.

08/11/2019 · Life in Communist East Germany was 'almost comfortable' at times, Merkel says. BERLIN (Reuters) - Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be ...

You can take a seat in a tavern, a living room or at a work bench, and find out more about leisure time and improvisation, housing construction and working life in Communist East Germany. Everyday objects are supported in the exhibition by historical documents, accounts by contemporary witnesses, and film material from the time, shedding light on everyday life in …

03/07/2009 · The life of Birger, a native of the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in northeastern Germany, could read as an all-German success story. The Berlin Wall came down when he was 10. After graduating from high school, he studied economics and business administration in Hamburg, lived in India and South Africa, and eventually got a job with a …

17/02/2014 · It would take a full two years before the Communist regime would finally allow the family to leave. In that period moving boxes were constantly packed, ready to leave their east German lives behind within the required 24 hours. “I remember the day in 1975 when we moved very well, because it was so strange. Everybody came and helped with the moving.

03/02/2022 · Life on the other side of the Iron Curtain was far from easy. Those who lived in the East remember those years as a time of shortages, being spied upon and feeling trapped. This explains why, over the nearly three decades of the Berlin Wall, thousands of people tried to escape from the East to the West.

Answer (1 of 11): Let’s just take a look at a normal day in East Germany (GDR) in 1980: Life wasn’t so much different from now. You got up in the morning. You had breakfast. You took care your kids didn’t miss the school bus. If you were lucky, you had an …