Thick as a brick
Or thick as a briquette, at least. These thieves here, I mean. As if the rather disrespectful Umgang (dealings) with Lenin’s image (no, not John’s) as witnessed in yesterday’s video presentation had not been enough, souvenir-hunting burglars have broken into former East Berlin’s former Stasi headquarters and stolen one of his rare portraits, a functioning GDR telephone (also very rare), a Soviet ice hockey stick and an important communist coal briquette.
Well, I assume that it must have been important. Otherwise they wouldn’t have stolen it. It did have “30 years GDR” imprinted on it, after all. But just imagine how valuable the briquette with the “40 years GDR” imprinted on it must have been? That one’s probably been stolen long ago. And okay, East Berlin is, genau genommen (to be exact), still in East Berlin, only different. I stand corrected.
Now I know that the Stasi folks were all secret police and Volk-oppressor types before their wall came tumbling down and they became more openly politically active in the PDS, I mean Left party and all, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t disrespect their memory any more than absolutely necessary. Everybody knows you should respect the dead and let bygones be bygones and all that, especially in East Berlin. But Laurel and Hardy here obviously didn’t get it.
Therefore my appeal: Whoever you clowns are out there, please bring back the Lenin portrait and the briquette, now. Keep the telephone and ice hockey stick if you want, but bring back the other stuff. This has a lot of sentimental value for whole brigades of non-sentimental types out there, wherever they may now be. This is your history, too. You no good thieving imperialist vermin.
It’s all about political dissent, not about being politically decent.
Well, I assume that it must have been important. Otherwise they wouldn’t have stolen it. It did have “30 years GDR” imprinted on it, after all. But just imagine how valuable the briquette with the “40 years GDR” imprinted on it must have been? That one’s probably been stolen long ago. And okay, East Berlin is, genau genommen (to be exact), still in East Berlin, only different. I stand corrected.
Now I know that the Stasi folks were all secret police and Volk-oppressor types before their wall came tumbling down and they became more openly politically active in the PDS, I mean Left party and all, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t disrespect their memory any more than absolutely necessary. Everybody knows you should respect the dead and let bygones be bygones and all that, especially in East Berlin. But Laurel and Hardy here obviously didn’t get it.
Therefore my appeal: Whoever you clowns are out there, please bring back the Lenin portrait and the briquette, now. Keep the telephone and ice hockey stick if you want, but bring back the other stuff. This has a lot of sentimental value for whole brigades of non-sentimental types out there, wherever they may now be. This is your history, too. You no good thieving imperialist vermin.
It’s all about political dissent, not about being politically decent.
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