and schwan berg, my father is a village teacher who is now required to teach soviet doctrine, marxist theory and even the russian language which she learned o the night before teaching at the next day. my grandmother, trying to cope and urging her children to lay low follow the rules, and not attract undue attention. the children joined the young pioneers and her closest sibling, her older brother signs up to be a teacher in the communist system, but she sees what's going on all around her and has no intention of conforming. so almost all connections between east and west are severed and there is a connection between east and west. inside she sees things were getting tired so she raises the concerns to her grandfather. he takes her out and shows her the lines going that have been pulled up and are gone. he tells her if you want to get out, do it soon in less than a year this place will be one big prison. she then makes several attempted escapes want once with her grandfather's health, once where she i has a shot at by a soviet soldier. twice dragged back into the east and a third time

things for me to do because i made these research trips to everything from the little village of schwan and berg where i met that town manager who gave me the keys to the little village museum and i was able to basically said just throw the keys on the porch when you are done. i went in there and i spent, you know, it was like walking back into time. this thing was set up so you could research the cold war in that village. everything from communist flags to communist party propaganda, young pioneer uniforms and symbols, secret police, you know, crests and all these things, ledgers, school lectures. so is able to go in and see some of my grandfathers writings and things like that. and it was even a mockup of the classroom in that little tiny museum. some of those chairs and tables which might've been used in my grandfathers classroom. i was also able to go to paradise bungalow. often have been back to paradise bungalow, often. i went to the town where my grandfather and family was banished after he spoke up one too many times. and so i think that was really important. also going back to berlin, o