Originally posted by Toad
Read what's there, not what you wish was there. What I said was these people were killed by your system. The Soviet system of government, forced on the East Germans after WW2, killed these people.
What other government system SHOOTS their own citizens in the back if they try to leave the country?
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Why don't you post the rest of it? Show folks what your political system does to the citizens of paradise when they try to leave?
So what would YOU have told the US forces to do? Would YOU order them across the Berlin Wall to pick up Fecther? If they had done so, what would be the probable reaction of the East German Border Guards?
Fechter was an East German, shot by East Germans, dying on East German soil.
Had US troops gone to get him, you'd be here now whining that we "invaded the GDR" or other nonsense.
You're so desperate, it's comical.
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Typical East German Border Guards guarding an artificial border created by the Soviets. Note how these two were not prosecuted until after reunification and the vestiges of a totalitarian system that murders its own citizens for trying to leave "paradise" had been swept away.
>>Once again, you show your total ignorance.
As Holden pointed out, the Native Americans are not "kept" there. They, unlike your citizens, were always free to go where they wanted to go without needing governmental permission or ID cards. [/B]
Toad, stop blaming the "evil" USSR for the Berlin Wall jumpers' deaths. Those poor folks were killed by the East German (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) border guards. And those border guards are personally responsible for those killings. Also responsible are the commanders of those border guards, as well as people in higher echelons along the direct chain of command who issued the order to kill people who were trying to escape to West Berlin.
The USSR government was not so deadly cruel towards Soviet citizens who wanted to emigrate abroad. In 1970s and -80s such people could emigrate after paying 5,000 roubles' (less than $10,000) compensation of the state's cost of their higher education, if they had such an education. The rest emigrated without paying this compensation.
Hundreds of thousands (probably more than that, I'm not familiar with the exact stats) of the Soviet citizens, most of them of Jewish origin, emigrated to the Western Europe, the USA, Canada, and Israel. It is a well-known fact.
But you again pick the most rotten apple from the ground and stick it into the faces of poorly informed people proclaiming that the seed of the evil is the apple-tree.
You are wrong again.
But to your credit I can add that were you born in DDR, you would make an exampleary border guard.