Only 5 meters higher" Kirill Brenner, who helped Georgi Zotov as a translator during the interview with Egon Kranz, writes: I often talk to Germans from the former GDR of the same generation, who remember what it was like before Gorbachev betrayed the GDR and it was possible to destroy the wall. Many of them say, 'If we knew what the future would be, we would build the wall five meters higher. ' But it's too late now.