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Swim for your life out of the GDR!

submitted by ant

1 decade 9 months ago

"4 people swim across the Spree to get out of Real Existing Socialism".

From http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1xl00r/in_1988_4_people_tried_to_escape_from_the/ ...

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This kind of reminds me of the Ukraine/Kiev situation, being controlled by Russia and all that.

Amazing. My parents lived in West Berlin from 1966-68, just before I was born, and witnessed this kind of thing first-hand. These people were very lucky. People were machine-gunned in similar situations. In some cases they weren't even trying to escape, but just found themselves on the wrong side of a buoy.

I do not think todays border crossers in Texas would be very challenged by what is seen in this video.

bcglorf says...

I hadn't thought Mexico was trying very hard to keep people from leaving...

I know there are similarities, but keeping people in IS different from keeping people out.

I do not think todays border crossers in Texas would be very challenged by what is seen in this video.

criticalthudsays...

yeah they would have catapulted themselves over that stretch with 30 pounds of weed

I do not think todays border crossers in Texas would be very challenged by what is seen in this video.

If they'd just waited a year.. it would have been a lot less risky.

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