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  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority 'Can't evict our ideas'. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat - a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
    derelict_bradford05-08-05-2009.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-44-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain in Trafalgar Square with the face of Karl Marx on a banner during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-28-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-13-01-05-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-41-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-06-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-04-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the faces of Karl Marx and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-04-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
    Anjim Choudary_101003-05-2007.jpg
  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
    Anjim Choudary_050503-05-2007.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-54-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-49-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-46-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-35-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-22-01-05-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-36-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-16-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-11-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-18-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-17-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-14-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-09-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the faces of Karl Marx and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-06-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Peeled paint and security at the entrance of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison05-05-0...jpg
  • The outer wall and watchtower on Genzlerstrasse of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members.Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time'.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison13-05-0...jpg
  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
    florence_italy114-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (German Democratic Republic), a brown coal delivery man stops to shovel his polluting fossil fuel into local cellars, on 15th June 1990, in Aue, Saxony. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    GDR_coleman-15-06-1990.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-53-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-52-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-34-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-30-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-14-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-01-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather on the plinth below Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-31-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain in Trafalgar Square with the face of Karl Marx on a banner during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-26-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face Soviet leader Lenin on a banner in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-07-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (the German Democratic Republic), the wreckage of a Trabant car still remains, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    GDR_trabant01-15-06-1990.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-51-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-50-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-48-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-40-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-37-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-33-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-28-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-21-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-20-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-13-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-12-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-10-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-07-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-05-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-03-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-02-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather on the plinth below Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-30-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain in Trafalgar Square with the face of Karl Marx on a banner during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-29-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain in Trafalgar Square with the face of Karl Marx on a banner during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-27-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-24-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-21-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-16-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-10-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face Soviet leader Lenin on a banner in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-08-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-03-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-02-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young man sells memorabilia and merchandise from the former DDR (DGR) at a market stall near the Brandenburg Gate, on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    selling_DDR-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a Trabant car sits wrecked on the corner of Mollstrasse and Hans-Beimler-Strasse in east Berlin (former DDR), on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars come off the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR). The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars await buyers outside the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany (former DDR). The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means "fellow traveler" in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990_2.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an elderly lady is handed her change after buying some cauliflowers at a market stall, on 1st June 1990, in Leipzig, eastern Germany (former DDR).
    DDR_market_stall-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Copies of former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's memoirs, ready for sale in a Costco warehouse around June 1993 in London England. The Downing Street Years covered Thatcher's premiership from 1979 to 1990 before she was deposed after a leadership challenge. The book was accompanied by a four-part BBC television series of the same name.
    margaret_thatcher07-01-06-1992.jpg
  • 'Love Anarchy' graffiti on a wall on a wall on the Rio de San Margherita canal in Dorsoduro, a district of Venice, Italy.
    venice_110-23-07-2015.jpg
  • Security barbed wire at the entrance of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison09-05-0...jpg
  • Entrance architecture of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison10-05-0...jpg
  • CCTV cameras barbed wire over the outer wall of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members. Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy. The Hohenschonhausen prison's existence was largely unknown to locals - another blank on the map. During Hitler's Third Reich, the Gestapo had one agent for every 2,000 citizens whereas the Stasi had approximately an spy for every 6.5. German media called East Germany 'the most perfected surveillance state of all time' - administered from this complex of offices.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison12-05-0...jpg
  • A conspiratorial message written on a construction hoarding lets us know They are sticking transmitters in people.
    transmitters_hoarding01-03-03-2011.jpg
  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
    florence_italy113-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the 'Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government', the Workers' Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary's transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
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  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit - Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
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  • A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..
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  • A new Trabant car shell is lifted by forklift from a truck at the East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony.  A worker carefully manoeuvres the unfinished bodywork into a crate where other vehicles await completion on the production line. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples' Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time.
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  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
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  • On a plyboard hoarding that has sealed up a Restaurant in Leicester Square, some graffiti suggests that the Coronavirus pandemic is a conspiracy reminiscent of George Orwell's cult dystopian work, '1984', on 29th September 2020, in London, Westminster, England.
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  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-55-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-43-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-32-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-29-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-23-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-15-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the faces of Karl Marx and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-05-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
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  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
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  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War...
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  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state (the German Democratic Republic), a Trabant is worked on at the company factory, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. The East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke was at Zwickau in Saxony. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples' Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    GDR_trabant02-15-06-1990.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-56-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-47-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-45-04-12-2018.jpg
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