Quote (Eric): "we in the West would no better , that the USSR was stretching until the East German border - as they called it the Iron Curtain."

Who are these "we" ?
"Experts" who did not want to distinguish between the USSR and the Warsaw Treaty countries (WTO) ?

Qoute (Eric): "Even so in E Germany"

GDR was vassal of USSR (not a part).
FRG was/is vassal of USA (not a part).

Qoute (Eric): "Remember the song from the German rock band the Scorpions : " follow the Mosquad , down to Gorky Park - listening to the wind of change "

Moskva River (!) not Moscow (capital of USSR).