Monday, May 21, 2012

loud-speaker truck in Stralsund, DDR, 1970s


Outside the Rathaus or Town Hall: apart the the ubiquitous Trabi 601's and a Fiat-Polski plus tour-buses there is a truck with loud speakers on the top; it was common in communist countries for the regime to bolster "correct thinking" of the population with the use of these (in the west you only got them at election time), along with party slogans in place of the commercial billboards in the west.

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