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[ 20 May 2011 | No Comment ]

 
An exhibition about life in a Communist-era  town in the former East Germany is highlighting what its organisers claim is the real nature of the Prime Minister’s much vaunted ‘Big Society.’
The exhibition at the Red Gallery in Shoreditch displays the changing nature of the murals that once adorned the walls of a factory in the small town of Schwedt. During the Communist-era they portrayed image of  hope and community – but after re-unification that optimism faded and the town went into economic decline.
On show are copies of the murals, as …