<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>He has changed his tune from then. Raised in a Communist family in West Germany, he emigrated to East Germany to live out his ideals as an artist and musician. However, he got crossways with the government, and was stripped of his citizenship in 1976, and had to live in the West. Currently, says Wikipedia:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14pt; "> <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; ">Now living in the West, Biermann continued his musical career, criticizing East Germany's</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; "> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; ">Stalinist</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; "> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; ">policies. He was able to perform publicly again in East Germany in late 1989 during the</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; ">Wende</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; "> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
19.200000762939453px; ">or peaceful revolution that eventually toppled the Communist government. In 1998 he received a German national prize. He supported the 1999 NATO</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; "> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War" title="Kosovo War" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; ">Kosovo War</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; "> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; ">and the 2003</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; "> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height:
19.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; ">invasion of Iraq</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; ">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Biermann#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[3]</a></sup></div><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">He lives in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Hamburg</a> and in France. He
is the father of ten children, three of them with his wife Pamela Biermann.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:03 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] "Comrades, Which of Us Wouldn't Be Against War"<br> </font> </div> <br>
"Comrades, Which of Us Wouldn't Be Against War" by Wolf Biermann<br>From the April 7, 1969 edition of The Nation magazine<br><br><img src="cid:1.534987813@web162702.mail.bf1.yahoo.com"><br><br><br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br><br>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br><br>
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