Socialist housing blocks, a Trabant and an advertisement.
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A website devoted to pictures of “Old cars still kicking, classic cars still on the roads…” has put up a number of photos of Trabants around the world.    A great site to keep your eyes on if you are interested in sightings of cars you just don’t see any more - we with good number [...]

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The Victoria and Albert Museum has an autumn exhibition planned to showlight postwar design from behind the Iron Curtain.    Watch out for a Trabant or two being displayed, maybe a Sputnik or two, and how great to see the plastic and fibre glass furnature in orange and brown designs!
The exhibition is open from the 27th [...]

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Berlin, DDR Nostalgia, it is such big business. The love for the “simple ways” before the free market and unemployment… forget about being shot on sight it you attempted to go over to the West and the secret police always keeping an eye on you, and it seems like quite a nice life. [...]

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