well is it going to happen in my lifetime and you'd say well maybe but probably not probably erich honecker win this argument and it'll be there in 50 years time or 200 years time is that that's what he said the communist leader and life in the years so you were moving between the east and west how did life in east and west berlin differ before the war came down to for the for the for i think the similarities were actually quite interesting that each country each city in east berlin and west berlin was a was a shot from for its system its ideology there was capitalism in the west berlin being shown off in the in the windows of the big boutiques in west berlin in east germany that was the show of city for. instrument communism truth be told both cities were really rather dingy bit in a fascinating kind of way i mean what it helped helped everybody to make some good music and that's a good thing but today the united berlin is a better place to stay with us peter because once the wall opened then as wasted no time in tearing it down but it left a scar that took decades to heal in our next repo