Here is a likeness of the man himself, Ernst Thälmann. It's only unfortunate that his life and death became a kind of propaganda story for the communist party of the DDR. I am not sure he would have agreed with all of the practices and policies of the German communist party that re-emerged after the war.
I also find it unfortunate that his memorial is covered with graffiti and broken beer bottles. Perhaps he'll never get the respect he deserves as a man who lived and died for his ideals.
PS: Don't forget to take a look at Halcyon Travels for more from my trip to Israel.
PS: Don't forget to take a look at Halcyon Travels for more from my trip to Israel.
Wow!!! That is big! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is a nice memorial. I hate to see the graffiti though.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to say, but the eastern part of the city is still pretty dirty in many parts. This is not the nicest area of Prenzlauerberg.
DeleteIt is big, but that graffiti.... just makes you sigh with dismay.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if many communists of his era were more idealistic. The graffiti is unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteI think they were. I am sure he was turning in his grave with the way the DDR turned him into a martyr.
DeleteI can't stand that graffiti!
ReplyDeleteEleven years in solitary confinement before being executed. Quite the life story.
ReplyDeleteThe art of the east and the west in one piece. The dictatorship of official gouvernement against the freedom of speech in the west. It is very disturbing but worth to think about it.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I'd be concerned about his ideals but I really hate graffiti!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. The people of that era had a much more idealistic view of what communism was. What emerged wasn't much like the views they held.
ReplyDeleteCapitalism is not better. Poor and rich , modern slavery and only a show off society.
DeleteCapitalism is not better. Poor and rich , modern slavery and only a show off society.
DeleteIt's an impressive memorial, but I don't like to see the grafitti there.
ReplyDeleteTypically monumental...
ReplyDeleteThe tagging is unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteGraffiti can have it's place, but not here.
ReplyDeleteGraffiti always tends to provoke me. It is a intrusion into someone's else's space.
ReplyDeleteA sad end, you right he did deserve more respect, he did stand up to Hitler
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