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Expectations were not managed in the euphoria that followed the fall of the wall
Could anybody explain to me why Expectations were managed here? Why were they managed in euphoria?
It does not make any sense to me.
Thank you very much in advance!!!
Non-PRO (2): AllegroTrans, Yvonne Gallagher
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Responses
United States
Six languages into flawless English
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 4 more.
see explanation
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AllegroTrans
: i.e. reunification could not be achieved overnight and the population was clammering for it
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Exactly. Thanks.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: your explanation would be clearer in plain English for non-natives "powers that be did nothing to dampen this down".
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Fair point - though the asker seems to have understood :-)
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United Kingdom
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Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: Spanish to English, English, Spanish, and 3 more.
When the Wall came down there was a difficulty in dealing with the news information
There's a reference to the Fall of the Berlin Wall which took place in 1989. (Wikipedia). It explains that some people were crossing the Wall from East to West Berlin, which also marked a release of the separation between the systems of Communism and Capitalism in Germany. I believe that an unexpected occurrence took place when the Wall came down.
"The news began spreading immediately, the West German Deutsche Presse-Agenteir issued a bulletin which reported that East German citizens wold be able to cross the inner German border immediately.
Excerpts from the press conference were broadcast on West Germany's two main news programmes that night, which came on in the air as the press conference was ending."
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AllegroTrans
: You have misunderstood yet again
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Yvonne Gallagher
: not what it means
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philgoddard
: We know what euphoria means, and what the Berlin Wall was.
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It was chaotic.
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philgoddard
: This is not supported by the following sentence, as shown in writeaway's additional context,
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AllegroTrans
: I think that is overtranslation as well as exaggeration
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dkfmmuc
: Not representing the source.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: overtranslation and not what ST says
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Reference comments
Full context, fwiw/hth. It's part of a book
the fall of the Wall. Experts in the early 1990s who identified
the task as a long haul, predicting that it would take decades
for the economies of East and West to align, were criticized
for their pessimism.
https://tlgur.com/d/G7o1wMEG
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Discussion
In history books Helmut Kohl is praised as one of the architects of the reunification of Germany. Which until then consisted of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The first mentioned leaning to the West and having the values of market society, freedom of participating in free elections and to travel abroad. East Germany with its values oriented to the values of the Communist party with a wall (border management system) hindering the people to emigrate.
In the transition period the chancellor Kohl made impressive speeches with the "blühende Landschaften" bringing a convertible currency, freedom to travel and wealth to Eastern Germany.
It seems that the author of your source is convinced that this transition period to a competitive society and the therewith connecting feeling of momentum was not properly managed.
Criticism at that time was that many formerly state-owned companies were closed in favor of their competitors in Germany.
In that view the source really does make sense. The announcement and the election promise simply didn't stand the test of