I'm just saying my character has operated in that region. You haven't had to deal with the ruskies for almost 25 years now though, east germany is a myth, shhh shhh.
Just to finish this debate...we have just celebrated anniversary of WW2 ending and the defeat of Nazis. It is scarry on one side, when politicians are talking about totalitarian face of Nazi and following Russian occupation, well on the other side it scares me that those brave men who fought and died in this that terrible war are pictured as some kind of bolsevik vilains. And those politicians were talking about how different they are and how better place the world is now, under their enlightened lead...
This reality is one big clusterfuck...
And Russian army left our country about 20 years ago...and eastern germany is no myth...at least not for german people...as Im passing those lands every month, Halle, Liepzig i.e., and you can see that cities were renewed with great efforts, but during the time of this rebuuild, people flee to the west, to industrial zones where was good work and good place to live, and now those rebuilt and renewed cities are inhabitted by ghosts...population density far less than projected...And wester cities, who were dumping their income into common treassury and actually sponsored that restauration of eastern cities, now suffer from lack of infrastructure maintenance and other problems, being under-invested for many years. And estates in former Eastern germany, in those renewd and rebuilt cities, are that cheap, that people from Poland, Czech and Russia are buying them and moving there, which increases tensions and, once again, German nayi sentiments.
This aint over. Far from it.
BTW...if you read Shadows of the Europe, back from 2nd or 3rd edition, there is chapter on Czech, and IIRC you can see western part heavily influenced or actually ruled by Russians. Which reflects a lot of today`s reality...
