After all waiting, travelling and fears of getting lost in Berlin, the training began.
The highlight of the day, visit to the former GDR Stasi Prison, gave me contraversial feelings. Yes, conditions here were not like in a 5 star prison. On the other hand, it was not too bad as I have seen visiting former Soviet ones in Lithuania where conditions were much worse because it was even no toilets in cells. Romanian participants had the same thoughts while comparing to their country’s experience. But the most surprising factsduring the tour was to hear that gay rights were implemented in GDR even before it happened in FRG and that GDR and FRG police were interracting (although the main purpose for it was money). This just adds to my opinion that GDR does not experienced such a stricht communists‘ regime like we had in Lithuania.