My opinion is based on the things told by my firends, and on what my family saw there, Grandfater was a commander of Portable Missile-technical base in a Group of Soviet troops in 57-65 there.
I wasn't asking about the priviledged few, I mean the normal population.
You must realize that nobody could critisize the government or the way of life down there because of stasi, electronical eavesdropping and a vast spy network consisting of regular citizens? The official truth has always been quite amazing. I still remember the stories of a few russians who entered the western world for the first time.
They were looking around eyes round. They could not believe we had (back then) several vcr's, tv's etc. Or the quality of the cars and housing. Or the fact that I had access to pr0n (heh, I was 15 go figga..
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