I was thinking about the over-simplifying of the Cold War by Americans in relation to your comment which I quoted, rather than anything to do with Amy's post. Since the topic was German reunification, I was referring to the fact that in Eastern Germany and to an extent in Western Germany, it was never clear-cut who the enemy was. Not when neighbours are employed by governments to spy on people.

Obviously not everyone had the same experience and I wasn't offended by what you said, but I live here now, and I know that saying anything back then was clear cut is over-simplifying the Cold War. Just because Americans knew they were fighting the "commies" and Communists knew they were fighting a democracy, Germany was held hostage by both.