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| "Stasi" bar opened in Berlin (8 Aug. 2008) - The times of the Cold War are still in minds of the Germans - this is the reason why the new drinking establishment, styled in the Stasi style - the severe former homeland security department of the GDR - has aroused so much social resonance. |
| GDR-styled hotels are popular among tourists (7 Dec. 2007) - GDR-epoch is already far away in the past. Less and less people remember it at all and some people even try to erase the whole time span out of their memory. That is why the popularity of these times is as lots of other things in this society - a waveform. A demonstration of these tendencies are so-calles "Ostels" - which is a name of a hotel - and at the same time - name of the hotel types, where you find that very same atmosphere of the "Soviet" times. |
| Unusual hotel in the center of Berlin (27 Nov. 2007) - The hotel consists of a single room. It is located directly on former border between the western and the eastern parts of the city. Those people, who were not satisfied with their life in socialist Germany, ran to the West though this area fire-swept by Stasi agents. |
| Two former acrobats opened a GDR-style hotel in Berlin (17 Oct. 2007) - Now in Berlin, besides the GDR Museum, you can refresh your memory or get acquainted with atmosphere which dominated in GDR, in a new youth hotel named Ostel, informs “German Wave”. The name is formed of two words: “Ost” means east and “Hostel” is cheap hotel providing accommodation to travellers for a short period of time. |
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