Dynamo Berlin is a difficult terrain, mate. It's easy to follow the mainstream-opinion and call them cheaters all the way, no offence.
Fact remains though, that the club was founded in 1966 and has not won a single championship until 1979, lousy cheaters then, huh?
Another fact is that most of the famous players having played for the team (also for the team becoming record-champion in the 80ties) were not bought together from here and there but products of the clubs excellent youth work ... (Dynamo Sportforum Hohenschönhausen was one of the countries most modern and best sports academies).
Experts and referees from the west and the east (I hate to talk in those directions, as it's a united country now) sameways have seen the clubs most suspicious scene, regarding it afterwards, as a clear penalty, for which the referee blew. Sometimes the people's voice have something like an self-dynamic devellopment within which can turn a clear penalty into a cheated game in their minds. I am actually referring to the penalty in 1988 blown against 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in favour of BFC and which gave them a 1:1 draw ... people tend to say this decided the championship, a public lie. The younger ones around might tend to believe it was the last game of the season, but it was far from it, it was somewhere at the beginning of the season (3rd matchday) and LOK as well as BFC still lost games and points afterwards as well. One point more would've given them the championship. It's not Dynamo's fault if they don't take their opportunities.
Oh and yes, it's true, the same penalty was taken in minute 98 or something like this (people tend to claim that as well), but it was blewn regular time actually

... now what happened is that some fans entered the pitch (within even the president of LOK by that time if I'm well informed, but actually to stop the riots I think) and started tumoults. It tokk it's time to get them of the pitch actually and the penalty finally taken. You hardly find somebody actually still remembering that, they remember what they want to remember and what fits to the myth of Dynamo having been a cheater club.
You might be surprised to hear that BFC-Dynamo's fans were all but amused by seeing the likes of Erich Mielke and his fellow compatriots on the ranks. BFC back in the GDR-time attracted punks and skinheads (not the Nazi-ones, you know the root boys, spirit of 69

), outlaws and rebels who actually did not feel comfortable sharing their stadium with those politicians. You might be used to the "Noone likes us, we don't care"-attitude (St. Pauli are quite a lot into it I think) ... now that attitude exactly fits to BFC Dynamo of the 80ties, they were coloured freaks, cheering their team and meanwhile seeking for provocation, hated among the county for being different and for their team just being superiour (and hell it was, read the tables of 1983 and 1985 for example ... no cheating in the world can help you to such an overwhelming outcome, you must be superior with those records).
Hertha and TeBe were no GDR-clubs by the way, and, believe me, that makes a difference
