East Berlin Diary

Peter Pulzer

The man in the S-Bahn was disappointed by the way the election campaign was going. He had hoped that for the first time in his life he would be offered a rational debate on the issues of the day; that the different parties and politicians would declare their principles and their policies, as in a well-ordered marketplace. Instead they merely slanged and denounced each other. And yet I thought he had acquired the first prerequisite for a functioning democracy: scepticism.

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[*] We the People: The Revolutions of ’89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash (Granta, 156 pp., £4.99, March, 0 14 01423 9).