As we drove around the area with Peter Kusel, he told us lots of things about the mistreatment, abuse, and inhumane acts imposed on the people under the thumb of socialism/communism.
I noticed a number of large concrete buildings that looked like apartment buildings.
They were some of the communal living facilities forced upon the people of East Germany.
When the USSR lost their control over East Germany and the wall fell, the East German citizens were free again.
One of their choices was NOT to live in those communal buildings. Peter told us that not even the homeless of the former East Germany would stay in those buildings, because of their strong hatred of the former GDR government and the socialists who ruled over them.
Communal buildings