What had the people think? (A non O&M thread!)

[CptRaccoon]

For 18 years a system came to fall!
The GDR the USSR don't exist no more!
But I only know what the people in my country had think about it, and the TV is to unrealistic to belief!

So how have you and your folks think about???
What was wrong what was truth?

I'm interested in personal-Thinkings not in facts!

[Segovia]

Well I thought the Deutsche Demokratisch Repulik came down because of short supplies. The USSR I thought came down due to Atheism.

[Dr. Dos]

I think most of us were like 2-4 years old when the USSR collapsed.

Also laughing at atheism being the cause of their downfall.

[Dr. Sticks]

I was less than two months old when the Soviet Union disbanded, I have to say that I didn't think about the significance of it at the time. as for the GDR, well that's pretty much the same. The reuniting of Germany means nothing more than "the reuniting of Germany" to me.

[Liz]

I think I was still in my mother's womb when it happened. lulz

[Segovia]

Wow you are all older than I thought you were.

[Arloest]

I remember I was 6 when it happened and my mom was going on about it. But being 6 years old, I wanted to watch PBS kids instead of the news.

[nickspoon]

The downfall of the USSR was due to atheism?

Snrrk.

If that were the case, Sweden should have fallen apart by now. No, the collapse of the USSR was caused by a number of different factors - mainly American pressure and internal political instability. The GDR was merely united with the FDR to become a new, more peaceful Germany, and this had a lot to do with the decline of the Soviet Union.

At the time, I hadn't even been conceived, so.

[Tom Flapwell]

I was old enough to realize that the maps and globes I'd seen were now significantly outdated. I didn't know the significance, aside from the largest-area nation in the world being split and one of the pieces being the new largest-area nation.

What I liked was the idea of breaking the Berlin Wall. Because hey, it means you get to break a wall without getting in trouble.

[Segovia]

I do see some what of a significance to the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the unification of East and West Germany; but I probably won't be able to comprehend or feel the historical magic that comes with actually seeing it happen. The only reason I could actually understand what it is because I learned about in German class.

[Arloest]

I was alive when they broke down the wall but that's about it.

[Angstwolf]

I was a babby.

[baloki]

In Soviet Russia Nickspoon Snerks you!

[Ibun]

I think I was still in my mother's womb when it happened. lulz

So was I. GIGGITY.

[gforce422]

I was too young to remember (only one year old at the time), but I do remember a globe in my house that still said, "Russia (U.S.S.R.)" on it.