BERLIN TODAY
I am a person is essentially a happy. Due to that character I once visited in Latvia and, described ee, It was the second time it has to go around the sea.
With the same feeling I went to Berlin.
But the situation in Germany (of course, working, democratic) so heavy, so sad - that nothing, except sympathy, pity, it does not cause.
Already on the train come across a humiliating scene, when any presumptuous Frenchman unceremoniously pushes away from the window was a German woman - it, you see, I wanted to see the view! And not a single protest - would have: This omnipotent winners.
Here you can see clearly, some gratitude to the Red Army should fill our hearts, the army, do not sit down and gave our neck that “cultural” thieves.
At the entrance to Berlin hits cemetery silence. (Relatively.) First of all, the results of the same rule of the Treaty of Versailles. for example, near Berlin there are so-called “cemetery airplanes” - a brand new airplanes, discarded, rusting and rotting: The French went with hammers and smashed brand new engines!
So around. Of course, are not surprised, gradually faded out, darken and omertvechivayutsya streets, from under the rail begins to sprout grass, punctuality, Measured life - disorganized.
Next to these external causes internal disruption terrible!
At Berlin's artist Gross has picture - that will, when the dollar reaches 300 stamps: painted a complete disaster. easy to understand, what is being done in Germany today, if we take into account the, that this same dollar is worth already 26 000 stamps!
The dollar is the thermometer, which the world measures the serious illness of the German economy. Reflection of the disease in Germany: scary speculation growth, the growth of wealth of the capitalists on the one hand and the total impoverishment of the proletariat, on the other. In no other country are there so many, to tears frustrating, the poor - both in Germany. Dregs of devastation and carnage stumps. It is therefore understandable, Germany most vulcanized Revolution Country. There weekly flash revolutionary actions (during my stay, eg, It was a battle Bush circus: workers expelled entrenched nationalist); daily growing most varied strikes - fighting all conductors from the Underground Railroad to the actors.
Of course, Low Currency Germany brought a flood of foreigners. Especially a lot of Russian emigrants in Berlin - thousand two hundred. The whole Vesti (rich part of Berlin) occupied almost one of these Russian. Even the main street of this quarter called Germans Kurfürstendamm - “Nepsky avenue”.
This Russian emigration is no longer the old, not militant. Hopes for a two-week RSFSR existence dissipated “aki smoke”, exported denzhonki porastryaslis, increasingly wrapped the poorest and most cultured of them (many fled after a fright) of Unterdenlinden 7, our embassy, for permission to return to Russia. To Germany, of course, after the Rapallo Treaty, Only with us, with Soviet, counts as a real Russian.
Of course, to Russia, to a single country, raises voice against the brazen robbery of Versailles, Germany has the most friendly, precautionary attitude.
And for us, this friendship has huge benefits. Ravaged Germany straining every effort to restore its destroyed economy, striking in comparison with France, their ingenuity, its cultural tension. Look at it, learn from its technical expertise - and most rewarding challenge.