"On the subject of reunification, the next day on the Today program on BCC Radio 4 they were interviewing various "notable" people about the situation. A very interesting comment was made by some notable Frenchman that Germany has only ever been unified between ~1890 and 1945 and it wasn't exactly as runaway success then."

1980's savagery could that even be typed today in polite circles? lol

I saw this on HN a year ago[1]. I was amazed to see people discuss this event that I only knew from documentaries just like we discuss so many things on HN.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937637

Thats madness. I sent it to my dad who lives in west berlin since 1950

That thread is an interesting read. Predicting the future is hard.

whoa, I just learned usenet was started in 1980. this is incredible