Old Retired Petty Officer: Communism vs. Capitalism : See The DifferenceYou can argue until you’re blue in the face but sometimes a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. These photos are a stunning punch-in-the-gut example to people on the left attacking consumerism and capitalism; THIS is the difference that economic systems make. The work is by photographer Stefan Koppelkamm and were featured in an article in Der Speigel called A Massive Facelift for Eastern Germany. The before pictures show the scenery from the communist days and were taken in the early 1990s. The after pictures are today after unification.You can argue until you’re blue in the face but sometimes a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. These photos are a stunning punch-in-the-gut example to people on the left attacking consumerism and capitalism; THIS is the difference that economic systems make. The work is by photographer Stefan Koppelkamm and were featured in an article in Der Speigel called A Massive Facelift for Eastern Germany. The before pictures show the scenery from the communist days and were taken in the early 1990s. The after pictures are today after unification.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Communism vs. Capitalism : See The DifferenceYou can argue until you’re blue in the face but sometimes a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. These photos are a stunning punch-in-the-gut example to people on the left attacking consumerism and capitalism; THIS is the difference that economic systems make. The work is by photographer Stefan Koppelkamm and were featured in an article in Der Speigel called A Massive Facelift for Eastern Germany. The before pictures show the scenery from the communist days and were taken in the early 1990s. The after pictures are today after unification.You can argue until you’re blue in the face but sometimes a picture is worth much more than a thousand words. These photos are a stunning punch-in-the-gut example to people on the left attacking consumerism and capitalism; THIS is the difference that economic systems make. The work is by photographer Stefan Koppelkamm and were featured in an article in Der Speigel called A Massive Facelift for Eastern Germany. The before pictures show the scenery from the communist days and were taken in the early 1990s. The after pictures are today after unification.

I was on Facebook and came across this.
It is a comparison of things relative to the Communist Era in the former East Germany(DDR)
Some very stark contrasts in the essay.
I have never heard of Lee Stranahan before but I am going to put his link here based on this article alone.
http://leestranahan.com/communism-vs-capitalism-see-the-difference

Samples below of before and after. Interesting to say the least.

3 comments:

BuckFriday, May 18, 2012 12:55:00 PM
The DDR was about as dreary a place as ever existed on this earth. Good Riddance.
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Glenn Mark CasselFriday, May 18, 2012 5:34:00 PM
I never got near the DDR when I was in Kinsbach as an eighth grader at K-Town American in 1968.
Kind of glad, ya know.
I am going to try and take the Missus to Germany and Italy one of these years. She is half and half, German and Italian.
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Just JohnMonday, May 21, 2012 3:33:00 AM
I don't think a clearer comparison could be made, but many on the left of our political spectrum would shake their head and mumble some drivel about the evils of our way of life.
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