East Berlin
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Nov 2, 2026
Thomas777GUEST
It's like they were...
Thomas777GUEST
In, in, in, in Crowe's words, he said, "It's as if the CIA didn't ever see the news." He said it was as if like they'd take just kinda official dispatches from East Berlin or Moscow, kinda knock a percentage off the credibility, then release it as basically, you know, fact.
Thomas777GUEST
You know, oh, the East Berlin says that, you know, the, that the regime is stronger than ever.
Thomas777GUEST
That must be true.
Thomas777GUEST
Or, you know, the-- Like, like Gorbachev's the general secretary, and he says there's gonna be no, you know, they're not gonna, they're not gonna drop the planned economy, and the Soviet Union will remain.
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Thomas777GUEST
What happens in Germany decides the fate of Europe." So if you look at a map of, uh...
Thomas777GUEST
I mean, I can't pull it up now, but, um, those, uh, who, uh, are inclined to do so, if you look at, um, if you look at a map of divided Berlin, um, it's strange because, uh, the Soviet sector kind of bulges.
Thomas777GUEST
Uh, East Berlin, uh, extended, uh, to Mitte, which was kind of the historical core of the Berlin city center.
ThomasGUEST
It's like they were-- in, in, in, in Crowe's words, he said it's as if the CIA didn't ever see the news.
ThomasGUEST
He said it was as if, like, they'd take just kind of official dispatches from East Berlin or Moscow, kinda knock a percentage off the credibility, then release it as basically, you know, fact.
ThomasGUEST
You know, oh, the East Berlin says that, you know, the, that the regime is stronger than ever.
ThomasGUEST
That must be true.
ThomasGUEST
Or, you know, the-- like, like Gorbachev's the general secretary, and he says there's gonna be no-- you know, they're not gonna, they're not gonna drop the planned economy, and the Soviet Union will remain.
32 MINS LATER
ThomasGUEST
You know, what, what significance does it hold?" You know, and Bradley said, "Well, you know, in, in, in, in a few years, that's gonna be quite clear." You know, and Molotov, uh, you know, the Soviet foreign minister, old Bolshevik that he was, like a lot of those guys, he actually had a pretty strong sense of geopolitics, and he said, "You know, what happens in Berlin decides the fate of Germany.
ThomasGUEST
What happens in Germany decides the fate of Europe." So if you look at a map of, uh, I mean, I can't pull it up now, but, um, those, uh, who, uh, are inclined to do so, if you look at, um, if you look at a map of divided Berlin, um, it's strange because, uh, the Soviet sector kind of bulges.
ThomasGUEST
Uh, East Berlin, uh, extended, uh, to Mitte, which was kind of the historical core of the Berlin city center.
Nick CurtisHOST
Or the sort of bankable star, I suppose.
Nick CurtisHOST
She is very, very well cast as a sort of bright, brittle actress, the star of the GDR theatre world or the East Berlin theatre world.
Nick CurtisHOST
But this is, as far as you could get from a sort of celeb vehicle, it's absolutely a sort of ensemble work and, as we said, a work where every single part of the whole sort of works together.
Nick CurtisHOST
And I think she's tremendous in this.
Allen WestGUEST
And again, like you said, if you're not telling that story, and I'm not just talking about the story of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but I'm also talking about the story of America.
Allen WestGUEST
When you have young people that are saying that they think socialism is a great thing, you know, I saw that up close and personal when I was at East Berlin, because we had just finished a mission up there in West Berlin.
Allen WestGUEST
We got the opportunity to go through Checkpoint Charlie.
Allen WestGUEST
Our young people don't know.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
Yes.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
Why do some people conspire with the regime? Why do some people turn on their fellow citizens? Why do some people resist that regime? This author goes goes to East Berlin after the fall of the wall.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
And she asks people why they collaborated.
Ryan HolidayGUEST
She interviews members of the Stasi.
Emily MantheiGUEST
Well, I think one thing that really shapes life still is the division between East and West Germany.
Emily MantheiGUEST
And I think Berliners are closer than most Germans to each other, like East Berliners and West Berliners, of course.
Emily MantheiGUEST
The East Berliners were under the communist regime and the West Berliners were free.
Emily MantheiGUEST
But there's a lot of social solidarity in both groups.
Emily MantheiGUEST
And that, I think, to me, that is such a huge legacy of what Berlin is.
Liberty HardyGUEST
It's called The Lives of Others.
Liberty HardyGUEST
It's a German film that came out in 2006 about residents of East Berlin who are being spied on by a senior member of the Stasi.
Greta JohnsenHOST
It
Liberty HardyGUEST
won a ton of awards, including the 2007 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
Jeff SchreveHOST
Somebody posted a meme today.
Jeff SchreveHOST
I saw it on Facebook, a friend of mine, and said, when the Berlin Wall came down, how many people were running to get to East Berlin? Answer, no one.
Jeff SchreveHOST
The communists had to build a wall there.
Jeff SchreveHOST
in East Berlin to keep their people in because they all wanted out.
Jeff SchreveHOST
We build walls and have border security to keep people out because everybody wants to come in.
Jeff SchreveHOST
And isn't it amazing these people that hate America don't want to leave America because America is the greatest country on the earth.
Bob WoodleyHOST
And that brings me to another question.
Bob WoodleyHOST
I know when I lived in West Berlin in the mid 80s, if you were in East Berlin and wanted to buy a car, you had to get on a waiting list and pay for the car in advance.
Tudor AlexanderGUEST
Yes.
Bob WoodleyHOST
And then whatever one came off the assembly line when your name came up, that's the one you got.
Gary DeMarHOST
In terms of mail delivery, the only entity that can do that is, in fact, the United States Postal Service.
Gary DeMarHOST
And I would suggest that someone like Reich would look at West Germany and East Germany, West Berlin and East Berlin to see the dichotomy in terms of free market economics and controlled economies.
Gary DeMarHOST
Well, in the east and west Berlin, the communists actually had to build a wall to keep people from leaving because the economy was so bad.
Gary DeMarHOST
Controlled economies fail.
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