Katarina Witt is a real...

**ROMAD1** · 08-07-2012, 09:08 AM

rhymes with her name

The Stasi's pretty apologist

Recently, Witt hosted the first of a German television series called the "GDR Show," the Communist name for East Germany, the Germany Democratic Republic. But the GDR Show isn't a critical review of a half-century of oppression. Witt doesn't use the opportunity to come to grips with her own complicity with a murderous regime. There is no "truth and reconciliation" as there was after the fall of South Africa's apartheid. Instead, Witt has turned her show into a revisionist white-wash -- a light-hearted nostalgia show, pining for the old days.

Today Witt says "life under communism wasn't so bad." The Stasi were just "doing their duty." Fifteen years ago she called them her "partner" and "the only people one can rely on." She actually misses them.

Not surprising to see a person so elevated by the East German State as a big fan of the "good old days". Recall that other Eastern European Olympic Hottie Nadia Comaneci's departure from Romania was one of the signals to the people of that country that the Ceauşescu regime had to go.

Katarina was one of the true beauties of the Olympic games though.

**Oblong** · 08-07-2012, 09:38 AM

I heard rumors that the GDR had some incriminating evidence on her that prompted her to remain loyal.

She was hot.... remember the slip?

**ROMAD1** · 08-07-2012, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by Oblong

I heard rumors that the GDR had some incriminating evidence on her that prompted her to remain loyal.

She was hot.... remember the slip?

She sued to keep her Stasi file confidential. Nobody in the GDR was clean of course. Watch "The Lives of Others" if you want to be bummed out.

**shauntacular** · 08-07-2012, 11:21 AM

wow talk about "Butterfaces from the Past"

**pyrotigers** · 08-07-2012, 11:32 AM

Well she has a point, life under communism probably wasn't so bad if you were successful, wealthy, and highly useful to the government as both a source of pride and propaganda. I'm sure she has a lot of keen insight into what it was like being a regular old person who didn't collaborate.

**John_Brian_K** · 08-07-2012, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by shauntacular

wow talk about "Butterfaces from the Past"

She would never make a top 10 for me or anything, but she looks pretty darn good for a 47 year old IMO:

**chasfh** · 08-07-2012, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by shauntacular

wow talk about "Butterfaces from the Past"

THANK you. I never thought she was so attractive above the neck.

Steffi Graf was one, too.

**ROMAD1** · 08-07-2012, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by John_Brian_K

She would never make a top 10 for me or anything, but she looks pretty darn good for a 47 year old IMO:

Odds those are real? ZERO

**Vonlenska** · 08-07-2012, 06:52 PM

clit?

**Mr. DNA** · 08-07-2012, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by pyrotigers

Well she has a point, life under communism probably wasn't so bad if you were successful, wealthy, and highly useful to the government as both a source of pride and propaganda.

Probably true of lots of Chinese athletes these days. They can throw themselves onto cushioned floor mats rather than off the roof of the iPhone factory in Shenzhen.