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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2527967, member: 16729&quot;]There must have been several statues/images made on the &quot;Befreiung vom Faschismus&quot; theme in East Germany.&nbsp; Here&#039;s an image of a large sculpture on that same theme that I took at a museum in East Berlin in 1988. Here, a Soviet soldier is tearing apart the shackles of fascism ensnaring some poor German.&nbsp; I snapped this photo and then turned my head to the right, and there, plain as day, was a sign written in German and English declaring that photography was prohibited.&nbsp; Oops!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]539976[/ATTACH]</p><p>It was also at this museum that I saw an impressive row of SKS rifles lined up on a wall-mounted display beneath the East German coat of arms.&nbsp; Being a goofy 18 year-old, I reached up to grab the charging handle of one of the rifles to see if I could pull it back, and instantly, out of nowhere, a rather squat, rotund babushka-looking docent appeared like a character straight out of Hollywood central-casting communist villainy and said curtly, &quot;FASSEN Sie nichts an!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah... memories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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