The Germans in the city

Today, dined in the company of Germans ( in the photo the next table, and there have been 40 people ). The area we have a deep and vague history. Not Russian, not German. But that's for sure know one thing, back in 1946 the last Germans were evicted in the GDR. Now they are returning. Look at the place where grown they or their parents.

When the curtain fell, he fell on both sides and the Germans rushed to visit, spurred by nostalgia. I must say that. our. The Germans were driven primarily in the GDR, T. e. it is the poor Germans under German standards. Therefore, both then and now, they traveled by bus for 60 people. so for less. At one time such trips were even put on a stream.

Then, in the distant 90th the Germans had symptoms. ' Licked guest '. Yes, if hungry Russia sought every way to feed themselves and no mark, no one pfenning was not supposed to fall by. I remember there was even a whole team of boys, beggars, who ran a gang pot-bellied bus and asked for another brand. Or offer amber beads, sets of cards. For 1-2 marks.

And then the stream has dried up. Old people died, young people openly ancestral homeland of the drum. Who went to the second wave. 45-70 years. This is precisely those born during the great eviction. They still roam our streets, looking at our homes and say, pointing at the front:. ' This is my house! '.

Perhaps they still harbor the illusion that someday will be able to reclaim their property. But now it's just old people, tourists.

The German tourists are remarkably sexless. All the women wear the trousers. Both men and women wore baggy clothes. Even in the face does not always understand, man or woman. My friend married a Belgian of Russian origin. According to her, Belgian no different from the Belgians. A major pastime - sitting in the local pubs. A wise government subsidizes citizens benefits and pensions that they can simply live. And to what does not seek to.

It is interesting to observe the German - tourists. Whereas previously they looked like something new, challenging admiration for quality of life, but now they're just old worn shopping bags, so forgive me this cynicism. But sitting around Aboriginal and dressed better, and behave more relaxed (no rudeness, just a sense of its place ) and bought more and more do not have any complexes that the number of citizens of another state. Accustomed to, and maybe just a sense of national significance came. Now she can not see the boys attacking buses with sets of cards for the euro. Russia has changed.

I was more struck by this more. Over the last year I heard the words. ' Thank you for your purchase '. ,. ' bon appetit '. more than a lifetime. My mind refuses to accept the Sov these phrases appropriately - accustomed to rudeness or ignore. It seems that something has changed in the country, and I did not notice. If the snotty girl, a cleaning my desk, wished me good appetite, it seems, I start to live already in a different country, which, dammit, I like.