Landesweite Veränderungen

Beschreibung
Die alten Regeln gelten nicht mehr und die neuen setzen sich erst allmählich durch.

Schlagworte
Berlin Alexanderplatz Berliner Mauer Mauerfall SED PDS

Standort
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Texterkennung

The old rules no longer applied, and the new ones only took hold gradually. In this transitional situation the East Germans attltude to life developed rapidly, their hunger for everything on offer mlngled with hnpes and tears. Their country was changing and KIIEW lf- The democratisation of state and society during the GDR last months opened up many opportunities. great variety of grassruots political and nhiwwm SOCIBI lllIlBtlVE5 WEVE SET J. wwuulwwtln V. People became self-reIiantA established representative interest groups and 1 depcsed the remaining SED-PDS offitials. Some activists campaigned for the environment and the conservation of their cities others started newspapers or championed education and employee rights. They often received spontaneous, unbureaucratic help from West Germany, and discovered many different facets of the previously forbidden West. The nationwlde changes became visible in daily life. Their effect seemed V particularly intense in Berlin as the Wall vanished and the divided city gradually started growing together again