Communism

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Hard life

Until I was six years old, my childhood was not the usual. I was born in Hungary. It was still

under the communistic control. I was three years old when my mother decided to immigrated

to west Germany. Since then we were separated from our family.

After world war 2, Germany has been separated into two parts: west and east. The

west side belonged to the democratic countries, like France and the USA. The east side got

into the russian hands which were communistic. Because of the many differencesthe two sides

had, a long wall has been built, in the center of Berlin, which is the capital of Germany. This

wall was used to separate the sides. Immediately, after the separation, americans started to

help, west Europe, to rebuilt everything after world war two. New jobs where created,

everything became colorful and the european people got hope again! However, the communist

was controlling

east Europe. Buildings were not rebuild, the life was very gray. People did not

have a chance to get new jobs, give their families a better life.

In 1987 my mother decided to provide me a better live, than I had in Poland. She got

papersÐ'Ò', which allowed her and me to live in west Germany. It was a very hard time for my

mother. She was by herself.She had to work and to take care of me, without knowing the

language or other people. We missed our family very much but above all my dad.

He was not allowed to leave Poland. We couldnÐ'Ò't even go back to him. It would have been

too dangerous, and we probably