On 09/05/2013 17:44, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 9 May 2013 17:21:07 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:


East Berlin was similar. If you could see it from the Wall, it was
luxurious, further away quite different.

I know. I got behind the Wall while it was still intact and also
visited not long after transit restrictions were considerably relaxed.
Unter den Linden was, as you say, pretty "up market" in an East German
way. Further east had the statues of Lenin and tanks as public
monuments and the brutalist housing estates. A very strange, but
worthwhile, experience.

How unlike our own Whitehall and (some random council estate)....

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK