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Sunday, 29 December 2013

Ricardo González. Dream for Reformation. 2011

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Dream for Reformation

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Gerhard Bondzin. The Path of the Red Banner. 1969. Kulturpalast (Dresden GERMANY)

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The Path of the Red Banner

Gerhard Bondzin

1969

Kulturpalast (Palace of Culture). West Exterior Façade Mural. Dresden (Freistaates Sachsen) GERMANY (originally, GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC)

NB:

This mural has been a protected state cultural artefact since 2001. This is due to the fact that Die Linke (“The Left”: an anti-capitalist Democratic Socialist party, the successor of the DDR’s SED) is strongest in Sachsen, preventing some of the anti-Left cultural and intellectual vandalism committed by the Right found in some parts of German society.

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