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   Karl-Marx-Allee

   The Karl-Marx-Allee is a monumental socialist boulevard built by the young GDR between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Mitte. Today the boulevard is named after Karl Marx.
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   Friedrichshain

   Karl-Marx-Allee, the broad boulevard that bisects Friedrichshain, seen from TV tower
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   East Berlin

   As in other former East German cities, a small number of GDR-era names commemorating socialist heroes have been preserved, such as Karl-Marx-Allee, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße; this followed a long process of review in which many such street names were deemed inappropriate and were changed.
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   Hermann Henselmann

   Karl-Marx-Allee, towards Strausberger Platz.
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   Karl Marx-Hof

   Karl-Marx-Allee
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   Marx (disambiguation)

   Karl-Marx-Allee
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   East Germany

   On 16 June 1953, following a production quota increase of 10 percent for workers building East Berlin's new boulevard the Stalinallee, (today's Karl-Marx-Allee), demonstrations by disgruntled workers broke out in East Berlin.
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   Potsdamer Platz

   West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee (which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961), into their own showpiece boulevard.
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   Stalin-Allee

   The film focuses on the Karl-Marx-Allee, also still known as Stalin-Allee.
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    Berlin

    Starting here the Karl-Marx-Allee heads east, an avenue lined by monumental residential buildings, designed in the Socialist Classicism Style of the Stalin era.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Karl-Marx-Allee,
• Friedrichshain,
• East Berlin,
• Hermann Henselmann,
• Karl Marx-Hof,
• Marx (disambiguation),
• East Germany,
• Potsdamer Platz,
• Stalin-Allee,
• Berlin