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Originally Posted by Kind Lampshade Maker
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Probable, yes. I don't see what can be done about it, though. Germans killed Germans trying to climb the wall too. Those things can't be undone.
Now, why East-Germans? Why not Poles trying to escape to Turkey? Czechs? After all, the tourist ratio between these two and East-Germans used to be at least 10 to 1. They must've tried to flee to Turkey in droves.
Why the Turkish border, then? There used to be a several kilometers dead zone around the Turkish border, very closely watched. Everybody knew that. Why should one go the impossible route instead of an easy one? Getting an exit visa for Yugoslavia was as easy (or hard) as getting a Bulgarian one. Again, why not go that way? My guess is, many did.
http://m.spiegel.de/article.do?id=563992
There is stuff in the above article that is ridiculous. A shooting in 1989? Hardly. That stuff used to happen in the 60's and 70's. So Spiegel says that,
on the verge of the two Germanys being united (1989!), and the Berlin wall - torn down, there was a moron who went all the way to Bulgaria and tried to walk into Turkey/Greece/wherever? Good riddance. If he's not a fictional character.
Other instance of bull in the article - the death penalty for trying to escape. From what I know (that's people being caught), 5 to 10 years hard labor was the norm. There might have been shootings on sight, but they have never been
officially sanctioned.
And "Avenging East Germans Killed in Bulgaria"? WTF is that? What will the Spiegel kikes do? Come over and beat us up?
I am sure people were killed trying to flee communist states. Surely there were many East-Germans among them, but I'm inclined to file the above articles under clumsy shit-stirring. I've come to recognize that jewish brand of cry-me-a-river, fiction journalism quite quickly.