Letter of the month: reunification or makeover in Germany?
First Drafts (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... all voters for die Linke live in self-imposed penury in “tenement flats” like something out of a Heinrich Zille cartoon, consumed with “eternal regret”, while the more “adjusted” members of society enjoy the “food markets, antique shops and cafes” of east Germany’s “impressively restored cities”. Yet “attractive” as eastern German cities might be after their “makeover”, it hasn’t...