![]() ![]() Such ambiguity also manages to come through in the heavily-censored literature of the GDR, and is more openly explored in books written post-1989 by German and non-German authors alike. No one is without some degree of sympathy or scrutiny. This has been the subject of deconstruction in recent years, with movies like The Lives of Others, wherein a Stasi officer gains a sense of humanity while surveilling an East German playwright and his actress girlfriend, both of whom have their own moral ambiguity to grapple with. Up until that point, narratives of East/West dichotomy were fairly black and white (with heroes and villains switched out depending on which side of the Iron Curtain you lived in). ![]() While most of them returned home the next morning, there would be no turning back for the Soviet satellite state. On the night of November 9, thousands of German Democratic Republic citizens would flood across border checkpoints to experience their first taste of the capitalist West (more on that night here). A year rife with conversations about walls, 2019 also marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ![]()
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