“For the young people streaming into the area, socialism is nothing more than a distant memory, a warm fuzzy glow. When I signed the lease on my ‘Stalinbau’ flat, the man from GEGEWO (a letting agency evolved from the old socialist workers’ housing allocation bureau) proudly handed me a glossy brochure which vaunted the Stalinallee’s socialist pedigree as if it were a Palm Beach condo and Stalinism its sea, sex and sun.”
imomus, Karl Marx Allee