I left West Germany in early ’89, right before one of the greatest consciousness flips in modern history: the fall of the Berlin Wall — November 1989. And what caused that collapse? Not a war. Not a rebellion. Not violence. It was soldiers, guards, and citizens realizing they were enforcing their own imprisonment. When that realization hit, the illusion shattered almost overnight. I walked out right as a regime built on: surveillance division propaganda obedience enforced narratives …was about to lose its spell. I was physically exiting just as millions were mentally exiting.