Two Sides of the Berlin Wall

 The Newseum, in Washington, D.C., has an exhibit of  several sections of the Berlin Wall on display as well as a guard tower. It's completely gripping and the most graphic representation I've ever seen of the divide between communism and capitalism as seen between 1961 and 1980, probably the hottest years of the Cold War prior to Gorbachev's glasnost policies. To the right, a view of the Wall as seen from West Berlin, emblematic of the freedom in the West as evidenced by all the graffiti.

To to the left is the flip side of the section above, as seen by East Berliners. No graffiti here because if you approached the wall from the East, you got shot. So it's pretty clean by comparison.

 

Detail of the graffiti on the West side of the Berlin Wall. 

I think I prefer the colors of freedom to lock step mind set.