Another literary reading about the freedom of movement during socialism

Our project work continues.

During the previous week in our German classes we discussed a few anecdotes about the German Democratic Republic. They were written by ex-citizens of the GDR, who happened to travel to Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s and described their trips along with the obstacles they had to face. One of the authors had a special task while accompanying the groups. After every journey he had to make reports and give them over to the State Security. While making them, he had to describe the behaviour of the travellers and, most importantly, to point out if they had met any citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany. The authors who wrote the anecdotes had a great sense of humour but now I realize it wasn’t easy for people at all.

In addition, a new literary reading was held. This time we got to know more about the book “On the other side of the iron curtain” by Zlatko Angelov. The author taught anatomy in an institute of medicine and told his amazing stories about his business trips abroad in 1970s and 1980s. He didn’t manage to get a visa many times not only for Western countries, but even for the Chez Republic. He was given a number of ridiculous reasons, such as his sister’s marriage to a citizen of France, his disagreement to take part in a communist propaganda, and to co-operate with the State security. It’s a fascinating book everybody will for sure be captured with.

We are already getting ready for our first project meeting, which will take place in Dorf Mecklenburg in March. We are very happy we will have the chance to visit the Museum of the GDR - DDR- Museum in Malchin and the ex-boundary between the FRG and the GDR – near Lübeck. Right there we will get to learn more about the time when our parents and grandparents did not have the right to travel. We will also have a project day with moderators of a German non-governmental organization. During our stay, our partners from Dorf Mecklenburg will have other guests as well – students from Denmark. It will be interesting for us to hear their opinion about the freedom of travelling. They will probably find this topic rather unknown and puzzling as such a problem has never existed in their country – with maybe just one exception – the feudalism.

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