I wonder how many people just pass by without looking up? It's great that you took the time to stop and photograph it. It is a very stark symbol of hope.
I'm not sure hope is what many people felt when they looked up at this back in the East Germany days. But I agree, the symbols do appear full of hope. Part of the big irony, I suppose.
Oh gosh "a stark symbol if hope" .Sarah seems not to know what the DDR regime looked like. Peopla today do not even have what I consider to be a "basic knowledge" of our history. What a shame.
Karl Marx = Rubbish? :) Super post and I hope a bit tongue-in-cheek. Marx got a lot wrong but also got a lot right. But enough about me, how are you doing?
interesting!
ReplyDeleteIt looks stark, but of course that's to be expected.
ReplyDeleteIt is supposed to be uplifting. Fail!
ReplyDeleteMega fail!
DeleteSo.... ummm, wouldn't this be communist rather than socialist?
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw that I thought it must have been from the old East Berlin
ReplyDeleteVery striking!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many people just pass by without looking up? It's great that you took the time to stop and photograph it. It is a very stark symbol of hope.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure hope is what many people felt when they looked up at this back in the East Germany days. But I agree, the symbols do appear full of hope. Part of the big irony, I suppose.
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ReplyDeleteOh gosh "a stark symbol if hope" .Sarah seems not to know what the DDR regime looked like. Peopla today do not even have what I consider to be a "basic knowledge" of our history. What a shame.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. A relic from the past, a reminder of the repression of the communist regime.
ReplyDeleteThat certainly does fit the catagory. Interesting. Thanks for linking up.
ReplyDeleteNice title. Interesting carving.
ReplyDeleteanother great black and white!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo and many thought provoking comments above.
ReplyDeleteLove the carving!
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting and a good choice for the meme!
ReplyDeleteThis is almost perfect in B&W, and I am no lover of the genre...
ReplyDeleteKarl Marx = Rubbish? :) Super post and I hope a bit tongue-in-cheek. Marx got a lot wrong but also got a lot right. But enough about me, how are you doing?
ReplyDeleteOnly an ironic celebration of communism, no worries Lowell!
DeleteThere's definitely a story in stone there Halcyon.
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