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Berlin before the wall was built: Stalin monument on Stalin-Allee, East Berlin's Soviet-style boulevard.     
The monument was dismantled after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. 
Berlin-East, 1955
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Berlin before the wall was built: Stalin monument on Stalin-Allee, East Berlin's...

Berlin before the wall was built:Stalin monument on
Stalin-Allee,East Berlin's Soviet-style boulevard.
The monument was dismantled after the Hungarian
Revolution in 1956. Berlin-East,1955
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Berlin before the wall was built:Stalin monument on Stalin-Allee,East Berlin's S...

May 1st parade in East Berlin. The East German Communists kept the traditional German goose-step, while West Germany abandoned it immediately after the war. 
Berlin-East, 1957
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May 1st parade in East Berlin. The East German Communists kept the traditional G...

May 1st parade in East Berlin. The East German Communists kept the traditional German goose-step, while West Germany abandoned it immediately after the war. 
Berlin-East, 1957
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May 1st parade in East Berlin. The East German Communists kept the traditional G...

May 1st parade in East Berlin.                               
Bemedalled officers under the grandstand.              
Berlin-East, 1957
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May 1st parade in East Berlin. Bemedalled office...

May 1st parade in East Berlin.       
1957
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May 1st parade in East Berlin. 1957

May 1st parade in East Berlin.       
1957
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May 1st parade in East Berlin. 1957

May 1st parade in East Berlin.                
On the grandstand, right, Walter Ulbricht, First Secretary of the
German Communist Party (SED), center Wilhelm Pieck. President of the GDR and left Walter Mittag, member of the Central Comittee. East Berlin, 1957.
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May 1st parade in East Berlin. On the grandstand, right, Walter...

May 1st parade in East Berlin.                
On the grandstand, right, Walter Ulbricht, First Secretary of the
German Communist Party (SED), center Wilhelm Pieck. President of the GDR and left Walter Mittag, member of the Central Comittee. East Berlin, 1957.
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May 1st parade in East Berlin. On the grandstand, right, Walter...

May 1st parade in East Berlin, 1957.
Otto Grotewohl, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic,
on the grandstand.
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May 1st parade in East Berlin, 1957. Otto Grotewohl, Prime Minister of the Germ...

May 1st parade in East Berlin, 1957.
Walter Ulbricht, Secretary of the East German Communist Party, on on the grandstand.
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May 1st parade in East Berlin, 1957. Walter Ulbricht, Secretary of the East Ger...

May 1st parade in East Berlin, 1957.
Workers' delegations pass the grandstand carrying banners. This one reads: "To acchieve German unity, Adenauer and Krupp have to go!"
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May 1st parade in East Berlin, 1957. Workers' delegations pass the grandstand c...