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These days the most draconian a German nursery school teacher gets is speaking in a raised voice. And no wonder there was a spot for every kid: The adult-to-child ratio was just 1 to 9. Recycling was vital business in the GDR, and not first and foremost for environmental reasons.

The state lacked in raw materials and relied on recycling to bridge the gap. Kids could collect bottles, scrap metal, or paper as well as aerosol cans, paper bags, books, glasses, camera film, aluminum foil, and more and get paid for it. My friend Kristin told me: "Young Pioneers collected bottles and newspapers in the neighborhood and brought the stuff to the collection center.

That was a good way to make new use of old stuff, created a community feeling and provided kids with an opportunity to earn some money. In two hours, you could fill your trolley and earn 8 or 10 marks. For 8 marks you could pay for your school lunch for three weeks. Reality Check : As soon as the GDR agency in charge of recycling stopped paying in , the volume of materials it collected dived by 90 percent.

Soon after, it was forced to close all 16, recycling centers and fire 11, staff. Bockwurst, white-flour rolls, mustard from Bautzen, Spree River pickles. Cuisine across northern Germany is nothing to crow about — neither in the east nor the west. But Ossies say the GDR sausages were tastier and still today swear that the very best come from the region of Thuringia south of Berlin.

Reality Check : The meat products from Thuringia are mouthwatering, especially for any American who grew up with baloney and olive loaf. What I remember about East German Bockwurst was not the meat but the thin piece of stale white bread made with cheap flour that came with it — and that it cost about a quarter. Jokes were funnier. People across Central and Eastern Europe say the best jokes were aimed at the Communist regimes and thus had something subversive about them.

Because you had to wait 12 years for a get-away car! West Germany had nothing comparable. All but a handful of the milk banks shut down in Reality Check : Whether this was every good to begin with is contested terrain. But only if the conditions are fully hygienic and the donated milk carries no diseases, like hepatitis and HIV.

If skinny-dipping is your passion, the GDR would definitely have been the place for you. No one batted an eye on the beaches of the Baltic Sea or in the Mecklenburg Lake Region when the whole family, junior high school classes, the next-door neighbors, and the postman all stripped down for sunbathing, a swim, and afterwards maybe even a few vigorous rounds of naked ping-pong.

The tradition has its roots in leftist, avant-garde culture of the s. One of our favorite stops in Pyongyang is the Juch. A North Korean waitress performs the classic song. A stewardess awaits passengers boarding a Air Kory. Nothing like a BBQ lunch after a long morning of h. An always friendly smiling worker greets commuters.

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