Hi, I enjoy your writing. I was born in East Germany (German Democratic Republic), in 1970. It was and still is wrongly called a communist country (it was state-socialism in its practice). In November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, whilst I was serving my third month in a military training camp for NCOs (non commissioned officers)... by that time I had already become largely immune to propaganda and, watching my East German brethren behaving like crazed monkeys on a stampede, when they were - literally - given oranges and bananas, lost a huge amount of my respect for us bipeds, for human are only very few. Then, I studied Russian for ten years (BA, MA, PhD) and realised that also Western professors were as propagandized/ignorant as, let's say, a builder or hairdresser from my former East. Why am I writing this? To say that I respect and thank you for your energy and excellent work. You belong to a small group of special humans who have not given up. Solidarity!!!
Hi, I enjoy your writing. I was born in East Germany (German Democratic Republic), in 1970. It was and still is wrongly called a communist country (it was state-socialism in its practice). In November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, whilst I was serving my third month in a military training camp for NCOs (non commissioned officers)... by that time I had already become largely immune to propaganda and, watching my East German brethren behaving like crazed monkeys on a stampede, when they were - literally - given oranges and bananas, lost a huge amount of my respect for us bipeds, for human are only very few. Then, I studied Russian for ten years (BA, MA, PhD) and realised that also Western professors were as propagandized/ignorant as, let's say, a builder or hairdresser from my former East. Why am I writing this? To say that I respect and thank you for your energy and excellent work. You belong to a small group of special humans who have not given up. Solidarity!!!