Thirty years ago, the wall dividing West and East Germany fell and the two nations were set to become one once again. These days though, the divisions between east and west seem bigger than ever. The former Iron Curtain is crisscrossed by insults like racists and xenophobes from one side, and condescension and exploitation from the other. Can it really be possible that it only took forty years for one people to split into two completely different parts? And what does it mean to be East German in Two Thousand Nineteen? Follow today’s eurobabble to find out.