Life inside the electic fence

[dbk]

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755

I'd love to see it first hand, if I thought I'd ever live to tell anyone about it...

 

[FlorIdaho Chris]

Wow. Those pictures remind me so much of a trip I took to Cuba right after the fall of the Soviet Union. If you threw in a few palm trees and changed the people it would be exactly like Cuba was. Strange lack of cars on wide streets.

Most ironic thing about my visit to Havana was that the price for admission to the National Revolutionary Museum (complete with captured Bay of Pigs US tank out front) was shown as $3.00. Yes, that is right, three US dollars, no Cuban pesos accepted, hard currency only.

 

[fjpikul]

Ha, looks like just Iron Curtain countries until the Wall came down. A lot of Eastern European places still look this way away from the bigger cities. These are the "Worker's Paradises!"

 

[B O N Y]

Have seen similar in Eastern Europe. Berlin was an amazing city while the wall was up, West Berlin was thriving with musuems, theatre, culture, fine restaurants and East Berlin looked like the war ended five years earlier.

 

[Sinovac]

Fantastic link Dave. What a shame-all those people living under the thumb of that fruitcake. I thank the Almighty God every morning that I was born in a free country and can enjoy the fruits of my hard work.

Let's face it, communism sucks the big one.

 

[dbk]

...East Berlin looked like the war ended five years earlier.

Pretty much the same way now. Same city; different worlds.

You really have to wonder just how little your average north korean knows about the world. Or how little we really know about them. The few westerners that see it all recognize that they are seeing an elaborate show preprogrammed into the citizenry from birth.

It's all the more shocking given the extremely sophisticated nature of South Korea. One of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

 

[dbk]

I thank the Almighty God every morning that I was born in a free country and can enjoy the fruits of my hard work.

Let's face it, communism sucks the big one.

I'm with you on both counts! :usa

 

[50 BMG]

Whoa, no one told me the matrix was in fact NK...

 

[STUNTS]

So..... who wants the '08 rally to be there????? Yeah... I'm kidding :lol
Thanks for posting that link. Very interesting... :frown

 

[PL510*Jeff]

Prnk

Thanks for this link.
Very brave man that took these photo's and did the related commentary.
Well done and informative.

 

[fjpikul]

Bony, I spent lots of time in both Berlins. We'll have to swap stories sometime.

 

[B O N Y]

Bony, I spent lots of time in both Berlins. We'll have to swap stories sometime.

Hey Frank, I would like that. I had the rights to all the beers from the DDR for the Americas. Lots of great tails to swap, I remember crossing over the border, I had a German employee as a liason guy and worked with a Swiss Company, SCHENK, and one of the directors would often times help me with negociations. We all met in Berlin and each of us went through another border crossing. Then we would stay in the National Palace Hotel which was had world class accomodations. The folks that we worked with stayed in a hostel, they were not allowed to stay in that hotel.

There was no other city in the world where you could see positive growth and excitement on one side of a wall and on the other a war torn slum... made me grateful for what we have, freedom and democracy.