Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953

Moving memorial

The memorial on the ground is a picture taken just before the massacre on this spot. In stark contrast is the mural on the wall behind it put up just 1 year prior showing everyone loving working in t...

Impressive

The pictures along the corridor contrast starkly with the pictures of the victims who fell under the Soviet bullets. Impressive and emotional memorial.

Contrast between what is said and done in Communism

One mural and one photo show the realities of Socialism and Communism- it is such an impressive contrast that it is hard to put in words.

The epitome of propaganda murals, now in context

Along one side of the National Finance Ministry building, once headquarters of the Nazi air command, runs a colorful mural depicting East Germans living joyfully under Communism. created in 1953, the ...

The workers uprising

In Potsdamer Platz, not far from the Mall of Berlin is this memorial. The mural and the photograph covered in glass remembers the workers uprising that was suppressed by the East German and Soviet ...