Part 102: Building The Druzhba Pipeline The letter was nothing more than a general, rough task for the GDR combines and factories that were to lay the over 500-kilometer-long section of pipeline from Kremenchuk in Ukraine to its western border, with everything else that went with it.
Part 101: From Family Life To National Project A short time later, a young family moved into a vacant attic apartment in the villa. Curious, we took a look.
Part 100: A Further Surprise In the living room, instead of the black-and-white set, there was a brand-new color TV.
Part 98: The Adventures Of A GDR Husband My wife kept me constantly on the go. Every year I had to take a vacation abroad.
Part 97: A Secret Affair In Plain Sight The relationship with my friends at the motorcycle repair shop remained alive even while the house was being built.
Part 96: The Dark Side Of A New Beginning The final spurt in the construction of the house and the upcoming move required our joint effort, there was no time for quarrels, and the relationship between Sylvia and me returned to normal.
Part 95: The Ties That Bind I went anyway, expecting disciplinary action. All hell broke loose at the construction site.
Part 94: Survival and Resilience After my wife had coldly degraded me to a failure out of unfulfilled vanity, there could be no question of a harmonious marriage.
Part 93: Love and Loss In A Changing The plan to avoid joining the combat group did not work, of course. The combine management even had its own hundred-man squad with everything from three personnel carriers to a goulash cannon.