These fucking dipshits lol, its winter, so the trees are missing leaves and there’s coal smog on everything, which was in wide use in the west just as it was in the east because it was cheap and domestically abundant. The reason it held on longer in the east after reunification is because the east was economically hollowed out and coal continued to be cheap compared to retrofitting in modern heating.
Here’s a picture from the late 60s(?) that’s not in winter (though it unfortunately frames out the large trees that are visible in the foreground of the reddit OP):
I think the Western capitalist brain is expecting to see every city filled with bright and colorful ads urging the population to CONSUME.
No, it’s genuinely just “bad country bad” is that deeply ingrained (well and picking photos that match their expectations). they’ll see pictures of pyongyang decked out in pastels (maybe the photo will be a little undersaturated but still with colors visible) and say the same shit all the comments about the GDR said on this post, “oh its so gray and depressing”, “oh there’s hardly any people in the streets” (there’s probably dozens of pedestrians but only a few cars)
They’ll look at Shanghai glowing bright and say the same thing
Yet people had homes and food and a job, until they reunified.
I’m pretty sure this particular intersection is still pretty green-less today. And you pic from the 60s has way higher saturation too.
And you pic from the 60s has way higher saturation too.
No, it doesn’t. Look at the yellow train and the blue clothing people are wearing in the OP, the colors pop pretty well. The difference is primarily that it’s winter in one and not the other, so the the trees don’t have leaves and there is more coal smoke in the air/overcast weather
I’m pretty sure this particular intersection is still pretty green-less today.
its about the same as it was in the 80s, maybe a bit better. There are trees, although not too many immediately in and around the station area. Some added along Eberswalder st, but some along Pappelallee, planted in the 50s or 60s, seem to have gotten too big and have actually been removed. It seems like a nice area, and its silly to pretend like it just flipped from horrible and depressing to great and modern sometime in the 90s, when the bones of the neighborhood are the same.
Anywhere at this latitude would look bad if you took a photo like this at the wrong time of year. For example:
