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> When I left for Alexander platz to seek
> more original East Berlin I saw an old man near to U-Bahn
> entrance selling
> all kind of old DDR related stuff (police oficer hats, communist party
> symbols and matushkas). Behind him there was this ultramodern city
> silhuette. That was quite a contrast, shame that I didn't
> have camera with me.
To catch some original East-Germany feeling close to Berlin, go to Potsdam.
You can get there by the local train.
Potsdam is very DDR, indeed. And in addition, there's Babelsberg, the former
movie studio area from the twenties. That's the place where Metropolis was
made!
> last time when i visited berlin (1993) my friend who lives
> there lived in
> marzahn, the biggest high-rise estate of east berlin. that
> place had the
> real east-german feeling. there was a park, where a 15-20 meters high
> granite head of karl marx stood, just nearby my mates house.
> big head baby,
> indeed!
In '87 I saw a statue of Ernst Thalmann (an East-German socialist national
hero) in Berlin, which looked exactly like Lenin. That was maybe because it
was carved by some Soviet sculptor. (... if I remember this correctly...)
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