Poor, Edmund W wrote:
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.
See, I think we can convey that notion just through neutral description.
If we say that East Germany built a wall between East and West Berlin to
keep in people were trying to cross over into West Berlin, I think our
readers are smart enough to draw their own conclusions. We don't need
to say "Also, this shows that East Germany was Bad."
-Mark