Germany is celebrating its national day of unification today, a public holiday. Younger people cannot imagine how unimaginable it was when I was younger that I'd ever consider myself a citizen of Brandenburg. 

Opposition to industrial poisoning of the environment played a part in toppling power. 

The lives and experiences of my neighbours play little role in public perception today.

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