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Astonishing East German Renovation (36 pics)

Posted in PICTURES 15 Mar 2012 64962 33 GALLERY VIEW

Photographer Stefan Koppelkamm took these pictures of East Germany in the early 90s, soon after the German reunification, when much of the buildings had yet to be rebuilt. He returned ten years later to take photos of the same locations, and found them completely transformed for the better.

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Credits: www.spiegel.de

33 Comments ?

Mr Dali 12 year s ago

Nice. The "after" photos would have been better in colour.

samthesham 12 year s ago

Free market economy in action...

Samjatin 12 year s ago

Well to be precise it was 1.3 trillion € (1.9 trillion $) from the western part of Germany that paid for that.

Enter your name 12 year s ago

No, it wasn't paid by western part of germany, this is 1.3 trillion Euro in new debts. Those have to be paid by all Germans.

ptpie 12 year s ago

money talks

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orendadude 12 year s ago

Do all towns improve if you get rid of Russians?

notafurfag 12 year s ago

silly furfag, money is the real catalyst here. women weaker? would love to see your weak ass give birth

oldpaths 12 year s ago

Get rid of the socialist and things improve tremendously.....Maybe the US should try it

Snake Plissken 12 year s ago

Agreed! In California this process is in reverse thanks to senile Governor Jerry Brown the uber-left state legislature.

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daglicht 12 year s ago

why are all the houses white?

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Neko 12 year s ago

There is a certain white house in the US that is in need of renovation, and of new tenants!

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DarkDvr 12 year s ago

Yeah, I hear that a site for Empire State Building 2,000 years ago was just a forest with a cave.
Amazing what capitalism is capable of.

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Don 12 year s ago

About picture #9. Was it really possible to have graffiti in communist territory? That strikes me as odd.

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Geoff 12 year s ago

1992 was several years after the fall of the wall and communism.

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Snake Plissken 12 year s ago

Was it really possible to have graffiti in communist territory?

As long as it is in the style of Socialist Realism.

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Enter your name 12 year s ago

oh the over-simplification is just painful. ugh.

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johnson 12 year s ago

astonishing? where? its like that all over europe.

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Enter your name 12 year s ago

#33 to #34 actually looks like it's worse. And, yeah, I agree with comment #11, this is a bit of an oversimplification. Not saying Communism was a good thing, but I could have done a before and after of what Capitalism has done to Detroit. To me Capitalism is not a virtue. Freedom of choice is, which is why I'm against Communism.

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Robotic Farm 12 year s ago

capitalism didn't do that to detoit, blacks and union thugs did

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Chicod 12 year s ago

Capitalism is freedom of economic choice. It does not mean everyone succeeds, it just means you make choices on how to allocate your wealth, or energy, instead of the government.

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Enter your name 12 year s ago

no, it means companies make decision instead of the public at large.

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Ubruni 12 year s ago

Look, in #12 they even cleaned up that old lady.

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ledouche 12 year s ago

Looked better before.

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Peanut 12 year s ago

Great job!

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viktor 12 year s ago

mmm, why didn't they demolished all those crappy buildings and built new ones from scratch?

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PoPo 12 year s ago

Next...Detroit!

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Z 12 year s ago

Its because of the nice old architecture victor

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viper 12 year s ago

WINNING !!

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Ball 12 year s ago

Detroit? Free market capitalism? Don't make me laugh!

Detroit is the CLASSIC example of central planning

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Neill 12 year s ago

Play them backwards and you will see what America will become if the progressive/democrats have their way.

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