Quagmire in East Germany
Posted by Rube | 3 October, 2003
No Blood for Trabbis!
Thirteen years after the "liberation" of East Germany, when it was proclaimed that major hostilities in the Cold War were over, Germans still find themselves wondering if the occupation and "reconstruction" of the once-independent state will ever end. Spiralling costs, popular resistance, and political pressure on the homefront have plagued Gerhard Schrder, and have people speaking of corruption and a possible confidence vote, says one source at an independent international watchdog organization.
According to Interpol, an independent international watchdog organization, more than 2,200 people were killed in German-occupied territories in 2002, 12 years after hostilities were offically declared ended.
Speaking today in occupied Magdeburg, Schroeder tried to silence critics of the Germans' unilateral takeover of East Germany, saying "together we must find the way to bring harmony, economic prosperity, social cohesion, and justice."
The country remains deeply divided on the issue of East Germany. www.mgb-home.de, an independent international watchdog organization, says of the lengthy occupation, "the word held and 1994 off from Germany took." Further, the site states, "Who comes too late, punishes the life!"