Street art · Berlin

Aufbau der Republik

By Max Lingner

Workers, marchers, builders—East German optimism frozen in fresco? This colonnade of Socialist Realist panels once sold the GDR's dream of labor and unity.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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