Word: unificationism
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Most disappointed of all are the former dissidents who led the 1989 * rebellion against Erich Honecker's regime but who found themselves left out of post-unification politics. New Forum, the umbrella organization that served as a catalyst of protest, failed to transform itself into a political party; many of...
The criticism is partly self-fulfilling. "The westerners tell us, 'You're dumb. You can't do anything right,' " says Jorg Richter, a psychologist in east Berlin. "That makes people emotionally ill." The sense of psychic distress is so widespread that politicians often use the language of clinical psychology to...
Such rebellions might also be called nascent anarchy. Authority in the east, ubiquitous until the revolution, has all but disappeared, and what is left is ineffectual. The scofflaw is pervasive. Drivers in newly purchased Mercedes and Audis routinely ignore speed limits even when overtaking the rare police vehicle. One reason...
One benefit of unification that should gladden even the gloomiest German heart is the reduction of superpower forces and an end to the crises and tensions of cold war. Yet there too unexpected problems have arisen. The withdrawal of the Soviet Union's 380,000 troops in the east, due...
"All generals were dismissed on the eve of unification," says Werner Hubner, a former major general in the National People's Army. He worries about making ends meet because of a new law that will rule out higher pensions for those who, like Hubner, had special status under the old...