headline on november the 13th, 1959. dateline berlin. each buyer of blue jeans, the east german communists have jill the teenager for two months we can see blood blue jeans in west berlin. the judge told the 18 year old that the sentence would, quote, serve as a warning to certain young people who want blue jeans or rock and rolled. and quote. throughout the cold war, blue jeans and in particular, levi's with jean or a coveted at a time's forbidden item in the soviet union but soviet teens demanded levi's so much, so that levi genes started getting smuggled into the soviet union, like narcotics. they were sold for outrageous prices. no, to stop the smuggling, these german government first started to manufacture their own knock offs. that didn't work. then the government bulk