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A sanitized chunk of the Berlin Wall makes it seem like the Cold War was one giant art project.
SUBMITTED BY: Ilya Mirman LOCATION: Berlin via Washington DC (2010)
This kind of aggressive posturing at the Berlin Wall once might have attracted gunfire from the East Side.
But in Washington’s flashy Newseum — the mainstream media’s shrine to itself — it is quite safe to be a rabblerouser.
The Newseum also has an authentic “Death Tower” from the Wall, but that doesn’t really lend itself to cutesy photo-ops.
[...] Now every last chunk of concrete is a coffee shop prop. The 1989 license plate date, of course, is when the Wall came down, making it safe for hipster artists everywhere. [...]