walk on the street with linden trees. Now this place is very fond of photographing the bride and groom. car for a wedding in German, incidentally, is much more profitable to lease, and conduct the ceremony itself the majority of Germans trust the specialist agencies.

And you're here, dear? That's a meeting! A long time since we have not met. Since the university. There you have me thoroughly exhausted. There I because you have not slept the night when preparing for exams.

It's not about the teachers, whom I might meet in Berlin. I'm so (admittedly, myself, but not all) responded to the monument to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. On it, we, together with my neighbor on the numbers in the Victoria Hotel stumbled near Unter den Linden - Lipovaya street or streets under the lime trees. Stand, my friends, like-though there was no collapse of the communist system. More precisely - one worth a second - is sitting. You'll laugh, but this monument seemed to me to sign a new era in the life of Germany. Why? Slightly below will explain.

far away from them - dug in the ground plate of metal. For some reason, on each of them a disproportionately small place with respect to the total area occupied by photographs of the communist countries. But a lot more empty seats. Our geography of these photos is recognizable at first sight. Here is a picture of a happy life in the Soviet Union. And there it is from Cambodia, or Vietnam, from Cuba on the won, and even from Mongolia. And so on and so forth. Photo only all faded to consider them - should be right next to approach.

And I suddenly, as a small child, I wanted to be photographed on his knees in the Marxist classics (almost wrote after the word "to Leninism - so accustomed that they are, these words are always there - as a petrified formula "). Climb high enough cu-pedestal was hot. Not in a figurative sense, but in the literal sense of the word. The classics are made of metal and under, although the autumn, but the warm sun of a good warm up. Therefore had to watch not to burn yourself. But I bravely overcame all difficulties and was photographed on his knees in Marx.

And then I understood why Marx and Engels are the sign of the new time in Germany. Seems to me if fifteen years ago to those who ventured to climb up to the knees of the monument of the classics of Marxism, then for a moment beside him would have been millitsioner and took him where necessary. And today, even sit on his neck and legs sves - nobody would pay attention.