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Berlin, Germany. August 15-17, 2003.
I wanted to visit Germany
since I was a child. There was a long weekend in Poland, due to Assumption of
the Virgin Mary religious holiday, so I decided to use those several days for
a journey to Berlin and Potsdam. It was my first and I hope not last trip to
Germany.
Capital of Germany was really
nice, but I imagined it in some other way. Anyway, there are plenty of interesting
palaces, churches, historical buildings in Berlin and Potsdam, not to mention
famous museums on the Museum Island of Berlin. I was mainly interested in the
last decades of history of this city, so it was nice to see the Reichstag, Checkpoint
Charlie, Brandenburg Gate and other places connected with the history of WWII,
Cold War and the former GDR. Most interesting pictures you can see here. I was
really impressed by the fact, that Germans take care of Soviet Soldier monuments
and
they have
not even erase inscription on the walls of the Reichstag, made by our soldiers
after they took it by storm at 1945.
There
is a little story about this trip in Russian, in which I described my impressions.
You can read it here.
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The Reichstag
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Brandenburg Gate
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Hotel Adler
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Fridrich Wilgelm II monument
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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
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The Russian embassy
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Police guard before the USA embassy
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Humbolt university
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Palace of Kronprince
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The cup made of granite before Old Museum's entrance
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The Lustgarten
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Old Museum
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Berlin Cathedral
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The rest of old Royal Palace
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The Palace of Republic - the site of the former GDR parliament
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Potsdamer Platz
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New business buildings on the Potsdamer Platz
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Building Potsdamer Platz
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The Red Town Hall
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View of the Kurfurstendamm
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Communism seller
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Vodka Gorbachev
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Kurfurstendamm - the cental street of former West Berlin
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Actually, the whole Berlin is the one big building site...
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Living apartments in the East Berlin
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Just a house in the Potsdam
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The historic windmill near the Sanssouci Palace
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Cecilienhof Palace in the Potsdam
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The Victory Column
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Sanssouci Palace - the New Chambers
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Soviet Soldiers Monument
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Sanssouci Garden
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The New Palace
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Chinese House
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The Jungfernsee lake
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Cecilienhof Palace - Stalin's apartments
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Brandenburg Gate
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Brandenburg street in Potsdam
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The New Gate - rest of the old city walls in Potsdam
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Bookstore
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Aleksandrovka - russian village in Potsdam, XIX.
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On this bridge spies were exchanged for during the Cold War
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Rabbit in the Center of Berlin
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The Charlottenburg Palace
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The West Berlin from the TV Tower
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The East Berlin from the TV Tower
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The Neptun
Fountain
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The TV Tower
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Checkpoint Charlie - teh former soviet-american border of occupying
sectors of Berlin
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Alexsanderplatz
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