Brokedown Palast -Part 1- Berlin Erases it Communist Past

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Uploaded by on Mar 14, 2007

Called the ugliest building in Berlin, the Palast der Republik is one of the last remaining relics of the former GDR in the heart of the city. But after the Berlin and German governments voted to tear the building down, a number of Berliners rose up to save the Palast.

Brokedown Palast not only documents this political debate but is a meditation on the building, it's city and the residual emotions and sentiments over this fading chapter in modern German history.

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  • Another bitter commie, crying over the failed state of East Germany! The people have spoken and they have made it clear that they do not want communism back! If they want it back, then let them vote the communist back office. That of course would be the LAST vote they cast because communist do not believe in chioce and Freedom, and thats why the East German Government is gone, along with their Soviet overlords! God Bless the Federal Republic of Germany!

  • NEVER, EVER again will the German people live under Russian occupation! Never again will the people be forced to live in a prison behind a wall of shame! Long Live a Free and Democratic Germany!

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  • i support both east germany and new germany. either way .i say those who dont learn from history will do it again. but utopia is good.

  • the soviet union was sick by that time.

  • CCCP

  • Absolutely. The USSR raped the Eastern Zone for many years. But after awhile they realized that it wasn't doing them any good because at the end of the day, they were responsible from that area So they needed to stop dismantling everything.

  • i think you'll find that the soviet union took a lot OUT of the gdr.

    but you are right,the said that by 1992 if the gdr existed there would have been an economic crisis.

  • Oh yes, and all of that is worth living in a police state which shot anyone who tried to escape? I think not. The GDR only survived as long as it did because the Soviet Union supported it. Once the Soviet Union stopped doing that, it was only a matter of time before it fell.

  • unemployment in eastern germany is rife and those people want communism back free health care guaranteed job for life-workers were unsackable guaranteed house 7000 gdr mark no interest loan for married couples basic food frozen at 1938 price levels AIDS virtually non existent some of the highest literacy rates in the world. a surplus of technical and scientific personnel if the stazi had have been used for anti-terrorism purposes only,the gdr may even still exist. the gdr almost got it right.
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