Part 107: Saving The Villa By the mid-1980s, the industrially prefabricated housing silos in all the larger towns had developed into satellite towns, while the old buildings, which had been neglected for decades, were becoming increasingly dilapidated.
Part 106: Hope In The Face of Adversity The pipe mill and the Volksgut, where Andreas worked as an agricultural technician after completing his military service, were in the same town, which was also called ‘the gateway to the Harz mountains’.
Part 105: A Lost Fitting The discussions were heated, and I had to take many a reprimand for late delivery of large-diameter pipes.
Part 104: A Life Of Challenges My trip to the stove-setting cooperative PGH (Produktionsgenossenschaft Handwerk) was equally devastating.
Part 103: Hope In The Face Of Despair During my work for the Druzhba route, I was on the road a lot. That was very convenient for me.
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.
