The Historian · Greta · Berlin
Karl-Marx-Allee
This street was the East's answer to capitalism — palaces for workers. It was also where those same workers rose up in 1953. Both truths live here.
The GDR's monumental 1950s socialist boulevard of tiled 'wedding-cake' workers' palaces, and the spark of the 1953 uprising.
— Greta, The Historian
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