This ranks as one of the standout most important events during my lifetime, an event in which the world really did change rather than some little piece of it.
The falling of the Berlin Wall shows that no matter how repressive the state gets, no matter how many guns it has, no matter how ruthless it may be - and STASI was damn sure ruthless - eventually the Wall will come down.
My thinking on the matter comes because of Henning Frunder as he looks to be maybe a year older than I, he even looks kind of similar as I had the same dorky look with a tie for the school pic.
Frunder and some friends planned their escape from East to West Germany but someone ratted him out to STASI. He was arrested in, I believe, 1968 and they sent him off to jail. Some years later they deported him to West Germany.
He never knew who did that to him and he didn't believe he would ever know as STASI destroyed many of their records once they realized they were falling. The building was occupied before they could complete the destruction and people have ever since been trying to piece it back together again.
From that information, Henning Frunder, learned the identity of his betrayer and discovered further that the individual is now in Austria preaching the word of God. He has not repented in any way nor has he apologized to Frunder. In response to this, Frunder said he would not try to see him as he does not sound very interesting.
Henning Frunder, a physics student STASI sent to jail, will likely remember the Berlin Wall coming down better than anyone.
Note: this is not a back-handed stab at preachers in general but rather at one shallow, manipulative bastard who uses preaching as a beard.
The falling of the Berlin Wall shows that no matter how repressive the state gets, no matter how many guns it has, no matter how ruthless it may be - and STASI was damn sure ruthless - eventually the Wall will come down.
My thinking on the matter comes because of Henning Frunder as he looks to be maybe a year older than I, he even looks kind of similar as I had the same dorky look with a tie for the school pic.
Frunder and some friends planned their escape from East to West Germany but someone ratted him out to STASI. He was arrested in, I believe, 1968 and they sent him off to jail. Some years later they deported him to West Germany.
He never knew who did that to him and he didn't believe he would ever know as STASI destroyed many of their records once they realized they were falling. The building was occupied before they could complete the destruction and people have ever since been trying to piece it back together again.
From that information, Henning Frunder, learned the identity of his betrayer and discovered further that the individual is now in Austria preaching the word of God. He has not repented in any way nor has he apologized to Frunder. In response to this, Frunder said he would not try to see him as he does not sound very interesting.
Henning Frunder, a physics student STASI sent to jail, will likely remember the Berlin Wall coming down better than anyone.
Note: this is not a back-handed stab at preachers in general but rather at one shallow, manipulative bastard who uses preaching as a beard.
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