That wasn't really meant seriously
It was just because you mentioned it should be built by Union workers, and I thought it would be very ironic if illegals built a wall to keep themselve out.
I don't want to write about the wall that much, because it would fill a book to elaborate on the pros and cons, and the reasons why it now is like it is.
Just, I don't want this wall back, and I don't want a divided Germany again.
And why should I want a wall, if everything else stayed the same?
I got born in the north of Germany, or West Germany. That means, they didn't point a gun at me. But they did point a gun, and not only that, they even killed them, against other Germans who just wanted to escape the oppression and the everyday control by the state.
They didn't want to be suspicious of everybody - neighbour, family members, friends of the children or whomever - to be reporting to the Stasi.
When they escaped they still had to be afraid of some Stasi agent to kill or kidnap them.
I don't want anything like this ever again.
Of course the results of the wall coming down weren't all good economically. But for different reasons:
First: The state was bankrupt, the infrastructure hundred years back and their economy and industry at least 50 years back. They really didn't have anything.
Second: Our politicians srewed the whole thing up additionally. They told everybody, we would pay that out of our pocket money very well knowing that it will be way too expensive to just pay it with some money out of the retirement funds.
But they did, and they didn't only tell that, they even did so.
Then of course companies from Western Germany didn't want to have to compete with Eastern German companies, and they didn't care about "fairness".
So they used their influence so that the trust that was created to organise the transformation of the former GDR couldn't do much more than selling all East German factories that could be used to companies to the West, and those that weren't useful anymore were closed.
The whole region just got left on its own, with no resources, especially money and economical power, to catch up with the West.
When it was too late our Government finally realised that it wouldn't work out that way and started to get some more money into the East. Additionally the EU discovered the Eastern parts of Germany as a bit needy and then started to assess this part of Germany.
Now the East slowly can catch up with the rest of Germany, but some parts will still be left out since it isn't economical favorable to invest in there.
Of course the results weren't all good, and who ever believed it would be just all good was a dreamer.
But this is no, and will never be, a reason to seriously want the wall back, or regret that we reunited.
Which doesn't mean, that we don't joke about it and say: "The wall should come back, but this time three meters higher."
