[SWAMPSNIPER]

Freedom makes an amazing difference.

[fella]

That brings back some memories. Never could get used to being asked for papers.

[broken_arrow1]

Hurry, someone take some before-Obama photos of America. It ain’t going to look very pretty after Obama gets a second term.

[Moltke]

Freedom makes an amazing difference.

1,000+ billion westmarks didn't hurt either...

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[Skooz]

BFL

[Gay State Conservative]

I used to work with a nurse who was brought up in East Germany in the 50’s and early 60’s.Her immediate family got out just before the Wall went up.The stories she told would make the hair on your toes stand on end...partially because members of her *extended* family were trapped there after the Wall went up.

[Cronos]

That's nothing -- here's Warsaw, Poland in 1945

then in 1950

That;s the Palace of Science and Culture -- a "gift" to the Polish people by Papa Stalin (he made them pay for it of course

Then in 1990

And, finally, Warsaw today

[MortMan]

I love that they have restored the original architecture rather than making a glass-and-steel landscape everywhere. There is a lot of love evident in those pictures.