August 15, 1961, 19-year-old under the Shishu Man in a barbed wire border guard regiment, and his west, a lot of demonstrators cursed him; to his east, there are a lot of demonstrators cursed him. Later, he recalled , said: “I was just in its responsibility to service, but everyone curses me …… as a young man, I am extremely sorry.” could be panic in his eyes have been detected, and the west were turned right He cried out: come! come! Schumann hesitated for a while, suddenly in the hands of cigarettes fling, go west, jump jump across the barbed wire – jump to a West Berlin.
This is the thing in Berlin was officially closed on the third day. Later, the famous Road, the location of the Berlin Wall, when the level is only missing the barbed wire. Schumann skip the barbed wire of the scenes photographed by reporters just as the Cold War in Germany a classic photo.
This in Frederick Taylor’s “Berlin Wall”, by Schumann’s jump is an image: the book all kinds of Schumann in a variety of ways to “jump” to the West Berlin – a sinister wind take advantage of the high from the night Elbe Tour in the past, there are crawling from the sewer of the urine in the past, there are risking their lives digging tunnels in the past, there are simply a direct red in the past, of course, more often through fake documents from the crossing walk through. Of course, not everyone is like Schumann so lucky: 18-year-old forcible Fichte was shot and killed on the spot, 25-year-old Dulica in diving when they were machine-gun pursued state of confusion and drowning. According to statistics, the Berlin Wall has more than 100 such victims.
To West Berlin could have been no need to “jump”, and “walking” the opinions on-line. But 49 years started with the establishment of democracy in Germany, walk to West Berlin, and gone too many people: In 1953, 400,000 East Germans flock to West Germany; 1954, 20 million; 1955-1959 year, 25 per year million; 1960 200,000 …… 12 years, East Germany lost 1 / 6 of the population. follow suit continues, East Germany’s socialist paradise would soon be empty of. In order to retain the people in heaven, East Germany, general secretary of the Soviet Union with the approval of乌尔布里奇built the Berlin Wall. For him, the wall is a struggle against the West a great victory, but they ridiculed Kennedy Road, the wall is his failure to publicly acknowledge.
Looking back today, the West 60’s, had to admit that it is a left-wing era. I’ve seen a reflection of the West German left-wing terrorist group “Red Army line” of the film
Fortunately, this world of “voting with their feet,” this matter so that we can sweep aside the slogans to judge the merits of the fog. Broadside at the world’s top public intellectual Noam Chomsky’s book to make the West can never occupy the first list, G20 or the WTO meeting of the demonstrators to make time and again declared that capitalism and the death penalty can be, but the Africans, Latin Americans, Asians have migrated to Europe and the United States will not stop. the human mind is full of wisdom, but our feet are their own It’s position. It is not good at expression, but the love of freedom, but also extremely sensitive sense of smell. More importantly, it more often than not we hold high the banner of the hands, eloquent mouth, hormones surging mind is more honest, because it has humble enough to yield to common sense.
It should be said, and the fraternal countries compared to East Germany Zhengou luck: it does not rule they are more harsh than that, unfortunately, from a geopolitical point of view, this too close to heaven from earth. There are two ways to create happiness, a species to enhance well-being, a taut curtain wall painted with the affiliation pointing to pie, said: see no, this is paradise. The latter is apparently to be much more convenient than the earlier ones. But unfortunately 50 years there is no curtain between East and West Germany, When the East Germans to West Germany who took a glimpse out the window really fried walked up and down, the wall goes on sesame seed is no longer persuasive.
This is the chance to read it, I felt that was the biggest rule in Eastern European countries, the extent true “thin.” 53 years from the East German government workers and opened fire towards demonstrators, to the 56-year Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest, the protests from Poland to the Czech Republic the Prague Spring, Eastern Europe, said the Government could only rely on the basic strength of its power barely “paste” together – even the powerful are borrowed from the Soviet Union. We know that the world has a rich “poor leaving only the money” , apply this sentence, there is a world power, “leaving only the weakness of violence.” If those in Eastern Europe’s leaders know that the leader of another country can be tens of millions of people starved to death after the intoxicated people also enjoy the Viva Long live Long live years old, will certainly pale in turn jealous.
The book there is quite an interesting plot. In a building across the East and West Berlin, where an East German man tried to jump from a second floor window, downstairs in West Berlin. Upstairs, the East German police from the window, grabbed his arm, Lou , the West Germans were grabbed from below his ankle. “embarked on a tug of war contest, but in this case, people in West Germany due to gravity side, the runaway victory.” I think, in the Here, the author of “gravity” term may be able to do a lot of meaningful interpretation.
