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They had the uniform, knee-high shiny black jack-boots, knee length trench coasts, swagger stick, maps, eye-patches, medals, epaulettes, sometimes sunglasses and the commanders visored flat cloth top hats. I sort of liked it when a woman. My last guard coming out of East Germany was a woman. Keepemouts are for the rich of course especially. But Keepemins was a new concept outside of jails. Jail states and sale safes; Communism and Capitalism. All the communist states - no freedom of travel, and the state had an ideology which preceded thought and action. Other than the root of all evil, I for one was never told much about communism. It had no ideals only diabolicals.
After much to do, the same for everyone, I got into East Germany on Tuesday around noon. Took the autobahn. I had no choice, east near Magdeburg and in between Potsdam and Beelty, coming into Berlin near Nikolassee. East Germany reminded me of Spain. I liked the countryside, remote, very rural, towns and cities always at some long long distance. Some of the things I didn't know coming in. You cannot leave the Autobahn except to stop at rest places or get gas. You cannot stay overnight. There is a currency check going in and possibly on coming out. You cannot leave East Germany or East Berlin with East German money. And you cannot spend any kind of money in the east except for gas.
East Germany was like instant time travel, to times long gone in the west, back a couple of hundred years. Maybe the peasant was romanticized, still in the distant flat furled fields, with the ancient colored dress and horse drawn carts. I was not allowed to go near. It was a painting.
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