Punk sitting next to a Volkspolizei officer on the East Berlin U-Bahn, 1986Submitted by swishswooshSwiss t3_z7s3ol in OldSchoolCool
swishswooshSwiss OP t1_iyahu6f wrote
Reply to comment by HeebieMcJeeberson in Punk sitting next to a Volkspolizei officer on the East Berlin U-Bahn, 1986 by swishswooshSwiss
That was done on purpose. The GDR wanted to present itself as the “real Germany” and opted to keep the old military uniform look, while the Bundeswehr did their best to Americanise the way their army looked. In the early years this was also a likely consequence of superfluous amounts of uniforms and a limited budget.
HeebieMcJeeberson t1_iyajo74 wrote
I get it. Still the uniform in a modern setting reminds me of Val Kilmer's movie Top Secret.
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