One in Five Germans Wants the Berlin Wall Back

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - One in Five Germans Wants the Berlin Wall Back

Posted: 9/8/2004 10:13:21 AM EDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Fourteen years and a trillion euros after reunification one in five Germans would like to see the barrier that split the country during the Cold War put back, a survey found Wednesday.

A poll by the Forsa institute found a quarter of western Germans wishing the 15 million east Germans were cut off again by the Berlin Wall, living in a different state, while 12 percent of eastern Germans wanted out of the united Germany.

Many westerners said they were disgruntled because they have had to foot the bill for reunification -- 24 percent said they had suffered financially as a result.

In the formerly communist east, which has twice the unemployment as in the west and where wages are still below western levels, one-third said they were no better off financially because of unification and the end of communism.

Berlin Wall

Posted: 9/8/2004 10:14:21 AM EDT

[#1]

Fuck, take the liberals and democrats from the USA and put them back behind that wall.

Posted: 9/8/2004 10:18:35 AM EDT

[#2]

My God, how short people's memories are. Yeah, putting that wall back up will just make ALL the nasty problems go right away, won't it.

Idiots!

Posted: 9/8/2004 10:27:16 AM EDT

[#3]

Undank ist der Welt Lohn.

Posted: 9/8/2004 1:57:31 PM EDT

[#4]

Just goes to show what years of communist indoctrination will do to a people as a whole -- it will RUIN THEM. It will destroy the will to work hard for a reward. There is a reason that Ossis dont fare as well as their Western neighbors -- they were raised by a nanny state.

That kind of crap ruins you for life

Posted: 9/8/2004 6:12:06 PM EDT

[#5]

I wish there was a "Mexico Wall". I'm tired of footing the bill for all the illegals.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - One in Five Germans Wants the Berlin Wall Back

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