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Originally Posted by biguc
Acajack isn't wrong that it's changing. I have a friend who moved here in 2003 and he's told me stories about how hardcore the party scene used to be: techno and electro punk thumping out of random kellars and hinterhofs. That's mostly gone. On the other hand, the city is run by literal communists right now; they handed off that big empty building on Alexanderplatz with the STOP WARS graffiti to some kind of artists' co-op, and they're running things with the kind of shantytown aplomb you'd expect. Still, the police shut down a longstanding squat last year so someone who came by the building god knows how could make money.
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Though like most any large city in the western world these days, they're silver spoon communists.
They're not people whose moms worked in sweatshops and who grew up in shitty tenements where their little brother stepped on nail and died because the family couldn't afford a tetanos shot. (Or something like that.)
The jury is still out on whether this new ruling class that has emerged will make reborn cities even better, or run them into the ground and kill the goose that laid the golden egg.