Karl-Marx-Allee
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Karl-Marx-Allee is a prominent boulevard in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain and Mitte, constructed and expanded by the former East Germany between 1949 and 1960 as a showcase of socialist urban
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Bundesarchiv Bild 183 F0416 0025 001, Berlin, Karl Marx Allee, Milchbar, Terrasse
Urban planning in the Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War era was dictated by ideological, political, social as well as economic motives.
Karl-Marx-Allee
…boulevard in the Berlin districts of Friedrichshain and Mitte, constructed and expanded by the former East Germany between 1949 and 1960 as a showcase of socialist urbanism and architectural grandeur. Originally named Stalinallee from 1949 to 1961, the boulevard formed the centrepiece of the German Democratic Republic's…
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Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin, built between 1952 and 1960
East Berlin in 1989