Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> BTW, this is the same with every emigrant: you get something from a 
> country
> while you're young, and then spend your productive years somewhere else.
> Following that crooked logic, nobody should be allowed to leave their
> country, state, county, town, family... as everybody got some "investment"
> from (some of) these institutions when young.

:)

Well, the obvious answer is -- you have to create decent conditions in the 
home country so people would want to stay.

> Then there's of course the question what free education they were talking
> about when they closed the border before 1950... Free lessons how to scrub
> Russian tanks? :)

Hm... was there free education under the National Socialists? Maybe that was 
the brain drain that the East Germans were trying to stop? ;)

Vitaliy 

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