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

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The impossible happens

 

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What did not happen.

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Gorbachev has big news for all communists

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Gorbachev tells East German party chief Erich Honecker that he has run out of time

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Boris Yeltsin Triumphant

 

Putin in Command

 

Meeting with world leaders

 

Putin ripped and riding

 

Ready for war