Deep in East Berlin, the designated general secretary of the German Christian Democrats has razed a bastion of the left. It helped him that he speaks the language of the people in the prefabricated buildings. A visit to the avenue of cosmonauts.
The Marzahn district in the east of the German capital. The district is best known for its prefabricated housing estates, but there are also extensive areas with single-family houses.
If you walk from the Marzahn S-Bahn station in East Berlin to the Russian Orthodox Church on the Allee der Kosmonauten, you will cross a residential area that you would hardly expect as a person unfamiliar with the area here, in one of the most well-known prefab districts in Germany: there are single-family houses, some of them of them in the alpine style, others with a superimposed pseudo-half-timbered structure. All this seems quite petty-bourgeois, but it also shows a certain prosperity. One thinks that CDU voters could also live here.