Red Future

Yes,East Germany had a low level of crime and deaths caused by drugs.The streets were wide and clean,litter and garbage were something you could not find on every corner.
Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_East_Germany
Here is an example of a modern city street:

The GDR was not some hell hole,it was an organised country with a populace of working people,the culture,art and sports were popular and the situation was much different than it is depicted in western-documentation.

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Oh thanks for pointing that out !!

This is kind of random, but did you actually mean to say red flag instead of reg flag in your political statement in About Me?

Democratic Socialist but yeah thats right. I think most loyalists in Belfast suffer from 'siege mentality', and paranoia about a United Ireland. From the start of the Troubles the DUP capitalised on these fears and ousted the more progressive (at the time) UUP under Terence O'Neill. I suppose like anywhere once a party is in power people are unwillign to change unless there is a radical reason, after power-sharing emerged there were some more radical factions that split off from the DUP, but generally they seem to have done very well alongside Sinn Fein in bringing peace to Northern Ireland.
One other reason for the PUP's relative lack of success is their close association with the UVF, which is off putting to many mainstream voters who are opposed to the actions of the UVF, even the PUP leader Dawn Pruvis resigned because of the UVF's involvement in murder.