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McFeely_Smackup t1_iy9jxr4 wrote

Someone should colorize the photo...what with there apparently being no color photography in the 1980's

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LittleKitty235 t1_iy9qfwh wrote

It is color film! No one could afford actual colors in soviet russia.

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swishswooshSwiss OP t1_iy9sp4h wrote

This was taken in the GDR not the USSR

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LittleKitty235 t1_iy9ukjk wrote

I know. Still in the soviet zone and behind the iron curtain.

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swishswooshSwiss OP t1_iy9wmrq wrote

Ok, doesn’t make your statement accurate. This was Germany.

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LittleKitty235 t1_iy9y3rc wrote

I would have thought the inaccurate part of my statement was that colors didn't exist under communism. Seemed clearly a joke to me.

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RangerNi33a312 t1_iye1zx7 wrote

GDR was not communist, It was socialist but ran by a one party state aka the communist party or the SED trying to achieve communism. I don't know much about color picture though

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