Historia - Frågesport

The End of History and the Last Man (1992), by Francis Fukuyama, is a political book of philosophy which proposes that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy — occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991) — humanity had reached "not just . . . the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government".

The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. A variety of authors have argued that a particular system is the "end of history" including Thomas More in Utopia, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Vladimir Solovyov, Alexandre Kojève and Francis Fukuyama in the 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man.

Hasselhoff performed this song before throngs of pro-German reunification activists at the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve 1989, mere weeks after the wall had begun to be taken down. Wearing a piano-keyboard scarf and a leather jacket covered in motion lights, Hasselhoff stood in a bucket crane and performed the song along with the crowd.

In 2004, Hasselhoff lamented the lack of a photo of him in the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin.

I'll answer as someone who was there in the later years, and not as someone who read a Western-written book on the subject.

What was life like? It was good. If you have food on the table, education and healthcare in your grasp, a roof over your head, running water and electricity, clothes, your friends and family around you, job security, safety and above all affordability…. how could it not be good? Not to mention things to keep everyone busy. The same cannot be said for a lot of people, in this day and age, who live in the so-called “more advanced” parts of Europe like in the UK or France or what is Western Germany.

Today, lets look at a lot of families - households work endless hours to make ends meet. Childcare costs a fortune after your handful of free-hours are used up. Rent is extortionately high and mortgages harder to get than ever. Utilities costing an arm and a leg. Hospital waiting rooms crowded and prescriptions costing hours worth of wages. Benefits slashed and gashed. Education of a low standard and further education costing the earth. Food (especially fruit and veg) are ridiculously expensive meaning that budget shops of lower-end quality are more popular than ever. Jobs not secure and lay-offs common meaning unemployment is high. Crime is rife and people keep their curtains drawn all day. Transport reliability as fickle as the weather. Gangs of children roaming the street bored or sitting at home bored. To summarize - you have to work very hard to make ends meet, and in return not see your children, not enjoy the little luxury you have at home, not eat healthily, and constantly worry about losing your home or if someone is looking to swindle you of the little you do have. Homelessness. Drug and Drink culture. Crime of all types….. and this is 30 years AFTER the DDR ended and in parts of the world that would sneer at the DDR as being inferior.