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...been on a labor crew which built the embassy and had later field to the west, confided that it, too had a bunker in the basement, with concrete walls three feet thick. The resemblance between Stalin Allee's enormous, oppressive expanse of street and structure and Hitler's own Unter den Linden is more than coincidental...
...State Opera company. They paid its casts handsomely and footed the bills for the best in costumes and scenery. Since performers and listeners had no trouble crossing sectors, the State Opera quickly restored its name as Berlin's first company. Now the Russians are even rebuilding the Unter den Linden theater, and providing it with a stage fully equipped for all the massive magnificence that Germans love...
...Unter den Linden was alive with demonstrators. Snatches of the Internationale seeped into the Wilhelmstrasse chancellery, where Socialist Friedrich Ebert, shaky head of a shaky government, sat wondering if he was another Kerensky doomed to fall before his country's Communists. It was Nov. 9, 1918. Shipwrecked in the field, rudderless at home, Germany was drifting into anarchy...
With iron fist and velvet glove, the rulers of Communist East Germany sought to erase the memory of the 17th of June. From the massive Soviet embassy in Unter den Linden streamed decrees and orders...
When the crowd reached the massive new Soviet embassy on Unter den Linden, a pair of Soviet reconnaissance cars wheeled to face the crowd. Soldiers somberly pointed machine guns above the heads of the marchers. Six mobile antiaircraft trucks twisted through the crowd, nose to tail, like a team of prodding sheep dogs, to press the movement past and on to other places. But at Leipziger and Friedrich Strasse, where the chief government buildings stood, the mob's suppressed feelings broke out. Anger scudded in like a rain cloud. "Freedom!" they chanted. "Freedom!" "We demand the overthrow...