RinVa posted:
"DC this morning. This is mind boggling."
I watched some of the video.
"The land of the free..."
When I was a soldier in Germany in 1971, I got picked to take the "Berlin Orientation Tour" to [what then was] West Berlin. Travelled there overnight and back on the "Duty train" that ran across the East German border.
Part of the tour was a bus trip -- in uniform -- through the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie.
In the afternoon, we were given a couple of hours to wander freely on our own (again, in uniform), through the streets of East Berlin.
Considering the video above, there was much more "freedom" in that communist city in 1971, then there is in Washington, D.C. today...