{"id":5430,"date":"2021-11-12T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vomsockeldenken.de\/prolog-2\/"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T17:21:37","slug":"p0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vomsockeldenken.de\/en\/p0\/","title":{"rendered":"Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Prologue<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/637405194?h=ad84e3fe40&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;texttrack=en&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The wrecking balls had grown weary. After the fall of the Wall, they had razed so many <em>heroes <\/em> <em>of socialism<\/em>. In 1993, Th\u00e4lmann was due to be removed as well. But where could the 50 tons of bronze and stone go? And who would be paying for it? Estimates put the cost of demolition at up to five million deutschmarks. He was preserved for posterity, therefore, and since 2014 he has been a listed monument.<\/p>\n<p>Some see him as a <em>deserving leader of the German working class<\/em>, f\u00fcr die Anderen <em>paramilitary <\/em><em>KPD commander and Stalinist villain<\/em>. The fact that Stalin dropped him during his detention by the Gestapo \u2013 history\u2019s bad joke. Murdered by the Nazi regime, he was turned into a cult by SED officials. 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