An incredible new survey, published in the Bild daily paper, has revealed that nearly one in four German residents "sometimes think it would be better if the Berlin Wall was still there". The poll, conducted by Emnid, asked 1 001 people about their current thoughts on the Berlin Wall, and found that even 16 percent thought that a return of the wall "would be the best thing that could happen".
A nostalgia for the perhaps more "simple" times before the fall of the wall is still a rather common occurrence in countries of the former bloc. According to the Der Spiegel weekly magazine, a poll conducted in 2009 had 49 percent of participants claiming that "The GDR had more good sides than bad sides.... |