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The OPIA Documentary Film Club invited Larisa Belzer from Berlin, this was her first visit to Moscow in ten years. Larisa Belzer is a political scientist, former professor of Gender Studies at German universities. She told the audience about how she got on a Europe tour, how she spoke at public events with her friend and writer Lois Fischer-Ruge, who devoted to the Belzer family several chapters in her book «Everyday Life in Moscow». And, of course, she shared her memories of Berlin, as she found him in November 1989.
«In 1953, in the GDR there was the first riot in the socialist camp against the Soviet occupation. The workers did not have their working hours reduced or their wages raised. In the West, there was a different standard of living and it was clear that the GDR was second-class Germany. But this revolt was suppressed by Soviet troops with a large number of victims. In 1989 Gorbachev announced that the troops would be withdrawn from Germany, and the Soviet leadership would never again go on to kill the Germans. The German population very closely watched the course of perestroika — they understood that they perhaps had their only chance of a peaceful unification of the country. In this sense, the destruction of the wall was just a prologue to the unification of Germany», — Belzer said.
Larisa also shared her memories of how people who have lived on opposite sides of the wall for so long united: «While my sister and I were traveling across Germany, we had a different perspective on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Those people who rushed westward after the fall of the wall were scattered throughout the country. We watched how western German citizenship actively helped to accommodate refugees from the east, helped them to find a life perspective and adapt to it».
«After the collapse of the USSR and the socialist camp, a completely different world began. When I was 20, I could not even imagine that I could buy myself a ticket and fly to Berlin myself, for example, and travel freely. All this happened after the inconceivable prohibitions fell, when adults were not allowed to “walk for a walk” by their strict “parents” who were in the CPSU Central Committee».
«People of our generation would not have thought of this (the idea of organizing a festival about a divided Berlin - ed.), because we were not given such a run. We didn't have such freedom — it ended just in front of our noses. I really hope that the younger generation will participate in the globalization of the whole world».
The first thing I did — I called her and said: «Irena, I read those publications, and what you did with other people is your business and you should deal with it, but what you did for me, my sisters and my mom will always stay between us. And all this should not affect our relationship in any way». This was my position. She really did a lot for our family: she fed us, dressed us, took out medicines, when it was almost impossible to get it in Moscow.
To watch the full recording of the public-talk with Larisa Belzer: https://youtu.be/5mgKfU51pBY
To learn more about Berlin Gärten festival: https://berlingarten.opia.me
On November 19-23, the OPIA Documentary Club will host the Berlin-Gärten Divided City Festival. The first event — a public talk about the events in Berlin in November 1989 — took place on November 7 at the ZIL Cultural Center. Club volunteer Karina Mansurova chose and transcribed the best moments of the conversation.
The OPIA Documentary Film Club invited Larisa Belzer from Berlin, this was her first visit to Moscow in ten years. Larisa Belzer is a political scientist, former professor of Gender Studies at German universities. She told the audience about how she got on a Europe tour, how she spoke at public events with her friend and writer Lois Fischer-Ruge, who devoted to the Belzer family several chapters in her book «Everyday Life in Moscow». And, of course, she shared her memories of Berlin, as she found him in November 1989.
«In 1953, in the GDR there was the first riot in the socialist camp against the Soviet occupation. The workers did not have their working hours reduced or their wages raised. In the West, there was a different standard of living and it was clear that the GDR was second-class Germany. But this revolt was suppressed by Soviet troops with a large number of victims. In 1989 Gorbachev announced that the troops would be withdrawn from Germany, and the Soviet leadership would never again go on to kill the Germans. The German population very closely watched the course of perestroika — they understood that they perhaps had their only chance of a peaceful unification of the country. In this sense, the destruction of the wall was just a prologue to the unification of Germany», — Belzer said.
Larisa also shared her memories of how people who have lived on opposite sides of the wall for so long united: «While my sister and I were traveling across Germany, we had a different perspective on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Those people who rushed westward after the fall of the wall were scattered throughout the country. We watched how western German citizenship actively helped to accommodate refugees from the east, helped them to find a life perspective and adapt to it».