The Berlin Wall collapsing always seems like an event which I should have been alive for, but nope, I was born two years later.
I was one of the first post-Cold War kids, though. That's something, I suppose--I was about five months old when the USSR was officially disbanded. (Though it makes my tolerance for Cold War history rather low. I want to go back and tell everyone to stop posturing, already.)
I think being post-cold-war is an excellent thing to be, personally. But maybe that's because I can't say it's an era I particularly miss, myself.
(Though it makes my tolerance for Cold War history rather low. I want to go back and tell everyone to stop posturing, already.)
And that's fascinating, because it comes so close to how I've often felt about baby boomers talking about the 60s (which I effectively just barely missed)--felt for a while like I'd spent my whole life hearing about how things were ever so much better in this time I'd just missed than they ever would be again ...
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Date: 2009-07-21 03:21 pm (UTC)I was one of the first post-Cold War kids, though. That's something, I suppose--I was about five months old when the USSR was officially disbanded. (Though it makes my tolerance for Cold War history rather low. I want to go back and tell everyone to stop posturing, already.)
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Date: 2009-07-23 03:48 am (UTC)(Though it makes my tolerance for Cold War history rather low. I want to go back and tell everyone to stop posturing, already.)
And that's fascinating, because it comes so close to how I've often felt about baby boomers talking about the 60s (which I effectively just barely missed)--felt for a while like I'd spent my whole life hearing about how things were ever so much better in this time I'd just missed than they ever would be again ...