Mark must have been delirious when he wrote:
> One view that people hold is that East Germany is a country in
> which the rights of the proletariat were protected against
exploitation
> by the imperialistic expansionism of the United States and its
cronies,
> as opposed to West Germany, where exploitation by the owners of the
> means of production was allowed to run rampant.
Sometimes people become mentally unbalanced when in severe pain, or
drugged up (or both :-)
East Germans' rights were so well protected that there was a wall in
Berlin with armed guards and booby-traps to prevent people from leaving
town and exposing themselves to Capitalist exploitation in the West.
Okay, okay, I get yer point, Delirium. The arguments would never end if
this encyclopedia tried to "get to the real truth" of the matter. Which,
of course, is why Larry & Jimbo insisted we write each article from a
Neutral Point of View.
Ed Poor
Champion of Human Rights
Shameless Promoter of Free Markets
Brainwashed Zombie Cult Victim
Etc. ;-)