Images III: Leninism August 13, 1961: The Wall Potsdamerplatz “Checkpoint Charlie” Brandenberg Gate (from the East) The Wall (in the East) Who are you looking at?…Paragraph assignment: “If Marx was an archaeopteryx, would that make Lenin his bird?” House on the Embankment Stalin: The Myth Stalin: Reality Stalin’s death mask, Gori, Georgia Nikita Khrushchev Stasi “On the watch” Abteilung für Damenschuhe im Warenhaus Centrum Luxury Living Trabis Kleingarten Happy children in East Berlin! The inconceivable happens . The impossible happens . What did not happen. . Gorbachev has big news for all communists . Gorbachev tells East German party chief Erich Honecker that he has run out of time . Boris Yeltsin Triumphant Putin in Command Meeting with world leaders Putin ripped and riding Ready for war