The grayness of the ultimate socialist state

My daughter alerted me to the fact that one, and only one, multiplex in all of Northern Virginia was showing the film "The Lives of Others" which won the Oscar for best foreign film.



When I crossed into East Berlin at the Branderburg Gate in the early 1980s, my visual memories of East Germany were characterized by two colors: gray and colorlessness.

I will never forget the one spark of life I saw that day: a beaming old man leaning out his 4th floor window and giving the thumbs-up to an obviously American foreign devil across the street below.

All should see this gripping film, made by a director who was all of 16 when the Berlin Wall came down. He has managed to capture the essence of what was no doubt the most efficiently humorless Communist state. Hillarycare minus the artful spin. Hillary in glasses and minus the hairstyles.

Thank you Ronald Reagan and all the others who told the world the emperor was wearing no clothes, that the social science of socialism is pseudo-science.


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