In their opinion the government is supposed to create equality and to secure work for everyone - and that's exactly what the PDS wrote on their banners. That slogan won the former communists votes especially many unemployed and elderly people. A current poll even revealed that 14 percent of the Eastern Germans wish to get back the Wall and the German Democratic Republic. No doubt, there's still a long way to go for the reunited Germany. In my opinion it will take decades to truly achieve a unity of our minds.
Today there is no real All-German identity.
We always speak of Eastern Germans and Western Germans. Every day the media tell us how they differ. There are prejudices and envy. There is some sort of mental rivalry that still divides our German society. Ten years ago the Berlin Wall came down.