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The statement that Herman was syndicated in communist East Germany in 1990 is doubtful and should be further specified. The Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, and a new democratic Parliament was elected in March 1990. East Germany ceased to exist as a separate state in October 1990 when it reunited with West Germany. Even if Herman was syndicated before March 1990, the political situation in East Germany had sufficiently changed back then to make the syndication essentially trivial. There was no communist regime ruling in 1990 that could have seriously hindered the syndication. If Jim Ungers humorous statement is correct that Herman caused the wall to come down "6 months later", the syndication must have occurred in 1989, not 1990.
