Travels around the Continent
“We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.” (Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) This month's blog post continues the story of my 1985 holiday, from the point when I and my travelling companion were about to leave East Germany. Once again my memory is being aided …
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"Je stärker der Sozialismus, desto sicherer der Frieden." ("The stronger the socialism the more secure the peace" - East German propaganda slogan of the 1980s.) Shortly after I started this blog a year ago, I wrote a series of five posts describing the Interrail trip I made in 1983. As part of that trip, I …
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