You've been there before, right?
East Berlin was very much looking more like Moscow than like West Germany, but it was the only place in Germany with ATMs that took foreign cards... Very decrepit, but much nicer looking than the West. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
East Berlin may have been spared, relatively speaking. But of of the territory that became East Germany, most of its major cities were destroyed.
I'm grateful to see that progress is being made in reconstruction.
This is essential to an eventual European union.
I saw Dresden and that center of Berlin (the surroundings of Potsdamer Platz) finished last year. But also plattenbau, abandoned industrial installations, and deserted villages. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.