Swim for your life out of the GDR!

4 people swim across the Spree to get out of Real Existing Socialism. More -*** 24 Feb 2014 ** I subtitled this video so I could show it to about 3 or 4 friends. I wasn’t expecting 400K views and 100 comments. For the “It wasn’t socialism it was communism“ crowd Real Existing Socialism is the term used by the GDR leadership itself to describe its society. Communism was an aspiration. Socialism was what they felt they had achieved and “Real Existing Socialism“ was regarded as a milestone on the way and proclaimed loudly and widely in the 1960s. The name of the Party ruling the GDR reflected this - the SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) “Real Existing Socialism“ was was also used extremely ironically by many in the West to describe the awful economic and political situation “next door“. I use it in this sense. I did NOT mean to somehow fuel the arguments of those in the United States who feel that Universal Heal