Look, shit for brains, I know who I am and where I was. You have demonstrated nothing but your own ignorance in this and many threads. In your words "The fact that you thought there was a wall running all the way along the East/West German border means that you were not there (there being at the border)."
The fact is, I was there and I knew there was a wall/barrier/fence/guarded area/whateverthefuckyouwishtoparseitas running down the entire length of the country because I was there and on the border as a Russian linguist. This is what I am trying to tell you. Your logic is flawed. You surmise that I was not there because I do not agree with your circuitous parsing and twisting of English. In the context of the original post, I never mentioned Berlin or the Berlin Wall (or Field Station Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate, Kudamstrasse)... YOU DID. I was in Berlin for only a brief period of time. I said that the Russians were so paranoid of a reunified Germany that they build a wall through the entire country. You had nothing intelligent to rebut that premise with so you started parsing the definition of what a wall is. I called you ridiculous and left it alone.
When I finally had a chance to catch up on these fora, I saw that more noise came out of that exchange. I was willing to let it die, but when you accuse me of being a liar about my own background, that's another kettle of fish. You need to step back. Got it. You are fucking wrong, you were then and even more so now and if you would be so kind to admit it and apologize, I will let this go. If not, I'll treat you like the Michel Merlin you have become ----oooooOOOOOoooooo-----