I had a former East German tell me that his first month in the USA nearly had him hiding in his closet because of the news, but then he talked to his father in the newly re-united Germany and his father told him not to worry— that the United States was a tiny, fragile egg, and when you put it on an anvil and brought your sledge hammer down with all the force you could muster, all you got was a broken sledge hammer.
The father’s opinion was that the news was no big deal to the Americans, only to everyone else in the world.
I had a former East German tell me that his first month in the USA nearly had him hiding in his closet because of the news, but then he talked to his father in the newly re-united Germany and his father told him not to worry— that the United States was a tiny, fragile egg, and when you put it on an anvil and brought your sledge hammer down with all the force you could muster, all you got was a broken sledge hammer.
The father’s opinion was that the news was no big deal to the Americans, only to everyone else in the world.