Today a tutor posted a link to photos of East Germany in 1990 http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-41629.html which basically celebrates perceived dilapidated difference. By way of contrast, here's how the city of Erfurt looked just under a year ago - not sure if it is still recognisably the East, or if the Cuban (?) band symbolizes globalization, but there's lots to decode, not least the eye of the Western tourist.
