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rayofreason

(2,259 posts) Wed May 9, 2012, 02:55 AM May 2012

Photo Gallery: East Germany's Transformation

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-59943.html

Quite an illustrative set of then/now photos.

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Photo Gallery: East Germany's Transformation (Original Post) rayofreason May 2012 OP

Yep. Classic architecture transformed into a consumers paradise. geckosfeet May 2012 #1

geckosfeet

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1. Yep. Classic architecture transformed into a consumers paradise.

Reply to rayofreason (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 05:50 AM

May 2012

Welcome to the new world.

on edit - not that it wasn't time for the wall to come down and buildings to be restored - but it seems the transformation is largely commercialization. Corporate funded reclamation projects. The last slide with the big "SHELL" sign on the fuel station says it all.

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