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In Brazil they have Favelas, in the USA they have Slums, in Argentina there are the Callampas or Villa Miseras, in Turkey are the Gecekondus, in Ecuador the Invasiones and in Peru the Barriadas. In Mexico they are called Rancherias, in Pakistan they call them Katchi Abadi, in India Bazars and in Kongo Bidonville. In Germany we call them Kleingartenverein.

The difference between other countries and germany is how we treat our Kleingärtner (inhabitants of Kleingartenkolonien, watch out for the Umlauts). While in South America and Asia some Governments tried to get rid of the problem by the measurements of bulldozing, we in Germany got used to our nowadays beloved inhabitants of the Kleingärten (also called Gartenzwerge).

Many Gartenzwerge are living of Hartz IV (i will explain this another time, but please don't mess it up with Harz, the beautiful Abhorchposten in the middle of Germany), but instead of getting settled down on unemployment they try to change their Slums into a Kolonie that looks even better than the famous Kolonie of Guantanamo Bay.

In the 80's the Bauernlümmel hat some infamous results with similar concepts called "Unser Dorf soll schöner werden", already back then we heard rumors that the American military is willing to trade german Unkrautvernichter against Agent Orange.