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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: SED/PDS poster, "We only live once" [206/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

January 1 - March 31 1990
Berlin and vicinity
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

"Wir leben nur einmal- machen wir was 'draus!" ("We only live once, make the most of it!") - poster for SED/PDS

Depicts

adbusting, damaged poster, election campaign, election poster, logo, motto

Context

Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Wir leben nur einmal - / machen wir was 'draus! / Sicherheitsmodell 2000 / für die Vertragsgemeinschaft / DDR-BRD / 1. Herunter mit der Personalstärke / von Bundeswehr und NVA um 50% / 2. Sofortige Einstellung der Modernisierung / von Waffen und Kriegsgerät / 3. Wehrpflicht in beiden Staaten / nur noch 12 Monate / 4. Schrittweise Vorbereitung auf den Abzug / der verbündeten Truppen bis 1999 / 5. Weg mit Kern- und Chemiewaffen / von deutschem Boden bis 1991 / Ein pensionierter Soldat ist billiger / als ein aktiver Soldat! / Rüstungsgelder gehören in den Umweltschutz! / Es geht um unsere Zukunft! / SED/PDS

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Memory

"I was born in Berlin and watched the Wall being built from my classroom in the district of Wedding. I found it quite remarkable that the GDR, the German 'Democratic!' Republic, held its first democratic elections on 18 March 1990 only to dissolve itself shortly afterwards. In the run-up to the election, I spent nearly every weekend from January to March 1990 touring the area around Berlin with my family, and taking photographs of the election campaign, posters, and everything else that had to do with the elections."

Ralf Skiba (West Berlin)