text: That is simply not true. 7 millon of inhabitants of the GDR visited West Germany every year, and it is very easy to verify that this is true. And I put quotation marks in escaping because it is a deceptive term. There is no talk in these terms of other countries. There is no talk of the millions of people who emigrate from the United States as millions of people who 'escape' from, for example, the more than 40 million people living in poverty, of which 18.5 million live below the threshold of extreme poverty.  And please, show me the wall that sorrounds the entire East Germany.