1962 - Bernauer Strasse "This shame has to go!" #Berlinwall #DDR #Berlin #ColdWar Photo: Maschke, Herbert

Bernauer Strasse / Acker Strasse 1980s #DDR #Coldwar #Berlinwall

Berlin Tegel TXL Airport

Halle-Neustadt, 1975. Photo by Thomas Hoepker.

Halle, East Germany, c. 1975 by Thomas Hoepker,

Some cities are built to inspire. Others feel like they were designed to break your spirit. A thread of the most architecturally depressing cities on Earth. 🧵

Berlin, 1988

Unter den Linden, c. 1900

Café Kranzler am Kurfürstendamm from inside, winter 1938. Photo by Willem van de Poll, Staatsarchief Den Haag. #berlin

These colour photos taken by an American diplomat in the USSR in the early 1950s are fascinating. They give a real portal into what the Soviet Union actually looked like at that time. This, for example, is Kiev in late May 1954. Link: manhoffarchive.org

Bahnhof Warschauer Str, 1983 by Robert Paris #berlin

East Berlin, 1983

Kreuzberg, 1981 by Markus Schreiber

A reconstructed / imaginative view from east Kreuzberg over the Berlin Wall, via the Asisi Panorama at Checkpoint Charlie. #berlin

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Berliners at the very newly erected Wall, border of Kreuzberg and Mitte, August 1961. Photographer unknown.

East Berlin, 1980s

#coldwar Above the surface a concrete wall divided the city of #Berlin for decades. Beneath the surface was different. #GDR #DDR ➡️ coldwarrecords.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/wha… #Berlinwall #thewall #Mauer #Communism #Socialismo #socialism #socialist #Communist #History

A parade in front of the Palast der Republik in East Berlin, 1986.

Leninplatz, East Berlin, 1982.