Stunning poll from Germany
Posted by: Justin on 26 March 2005
sorry if this has been covered, but I was shocked to learn that almost 25% of West Germans and 12% of East Germans long for the wall. What sort of social pressure causes something like this to happen:
"http://reuters.myway.com/article/20...NY-WALL-DC.html
Mar 26, 8:29 AM (ET)
BERLIN (Reuters) - Nearly a quarter of western Germans and 12 percent of easterners want the Berlin Wall back -- more than 15 years after the fall of the barrier that split Germany during the Cold War, according to a new survey.
The results of the poll, published Saturday, reflected die-hard animosities over high reunification costs lowering western standards of living and economic turmoil in the east.
The survey of 2,000 Germans by Berlin's Free University and pollsters Forsa found 24 percent of those living in western Germany want the Wall back -- double the eastern level.
In Berlin itself, 11 percent of westerners and 8 percent of easterners said "yes" when asked: "Would it be better if the Wall between East and West were still standing?."
The Berlin Wall was breached on Nov. 9, 1989, paving the way for the unification of Communist East Germany with the West on Oct. 3, 1990. But billions of euros (dollars) spent rebuilding the east have failed to prop up the depressed region, which is plagued by high unemployment and a shrinking population.
The poll also found that 47 percent of the easterners agree with the statement that the West "acquired the east like a colony," while 58 percent of the westerners back the statement that "easterners tend to wallow in self-pity."
Stunned.
Judd
"http://reuters.myway.com/article/20...NY-WALL-DC.html
Mar 26, 8:29 AM (ET)
BERLIN (Reuters) - Nearly a quarter of western Germans and 12 percent of easterners want the Berlin Wall back -- more than 15 years after the fall of the barrier that split Germany during the Cold War, according to a new survey.
The results of the poll, published Saturday, reflected die-hard animosities over high reunification costs lowering western standards of living and economic turmoil in the east.
The survey of 2,000 Germans by Berlin's Free University and pollsters Forsa found 24 percent of those living in western Germany want the Wall back -- double the eastern level.
In Berlin itself, 11 percent of westerners and 8 percent of easterners said "yes" when asked: "Would it be better if the Wall between East and West were still standing?."
The Berlin Wall was breached on Nov. 9, 1989, paving the way for the unification of Communist East Germany with the West on Oct. 3, 1990. But billions of euros (dollars) spent rebuilding the east have failed to prop up the depressed region, which is plagued by high unemployment and a shrinking population.
The poll also found that 47 percent of the easterners agree with the statement that the West "acquired the east like a colony," while 58 percent of the westerners back the statement that "easterners tend to wallow in self-pity."
Stunned.
Judd
As a born Londoner & a Berliner to-boot, your 2000 folk survey like most 'Polls' is a load of old bollocks, this subject was actually mentioned last night on the local news, but suprise, suprise, it had no comparison with the version you got to hear about/read. I hear that Aukland is the biggest City in the World with the smallest population, and that Cleveland once nearly had a black Gay Mayor, though here in Berlin we do get pissed off with the bloody wind that screws up our oiutdoor table-tennis ever since the Wall (Mauer) came down.
FRitz Von Cheers & I made a fortune rtenting out chisels and hammers to tourists to take thier bit of history home ($10 + for a rock in New York at the time)
FRitz Von Cheers & I made a fortune rtenting out chisels and hammers to tourists to take thier bit of history home ($10 + for a rock in New York at the time)