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

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:06 pm
by 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!

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 2:07 pm
by Segovia
Well I thought the Deutsche Demokratisch Repulik came down because of short supplies. The USSR I thought came down due to Atheism.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:09 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:47 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:03 pm
by Liz
I think I was still in my mother's womb when it happened. lulz

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:13 pm
by Segovia
Wow you are all older than I thought you were.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:32 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:12 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:14 pm
by 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I was old enough to realize that the maps and globes I'd seen were now significantly outdated.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.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:21 pm
by 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.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:53 pm
by Arloest
I was alive when they broke down the wall but that's about it.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:51 pm
by Angstwolf
I was a babby.

Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:58 pm
by baloki
In Soviet Russia Nickspoon Snerks you!

Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:41 am
by Ibun
I think I was still in my mother's womb when it happened. lulz
So was I. GIGGITY.

Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:51 pm
by 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.