. The wall had pretty much cut the city in the center on a north south axis except that Russia owned most of the city center (up to the Brandenburg Gate), so the wall carved around the entire center.On the way back to the subway we walked past a restaurant with a grand piano turned into a waterfall. You can see the water flowing out at the far side.
Walking to the corner of Wilhelmstrasse and Leigzigstrasse, we found the huge mural on the side of a building depicting how happy the people were supposed to be under communism
with an equally large photograph in the ground added in 1993 from the 1953 uprising right before they were brutally suppressed. 
Very interesting contrast. The title of the communist propaganda is “The Importance of Peace for the Cultural development of Humanity and the Necessity of Struggle to Achieve this Goal.” The protest was from the uprising on June 17, 1953 which was ultimately brutally put down by the Soviets who came in with tanks. After this event the section of street beginning on the west side of Brandenburg Gate was renamed
Next we walked to Checkpoint Charlie, the place where most people had crossed into the eastern zone. Right before we got there we passed a fairly large section of the wall. 
We also passed the place which offers Trabi safaris--people rent out the Trabis and they create a large caravan through the Eastern sector with the information about where their are piped into their radios.
where two German guys were dressed up in American uniform carrying American flags.
Theywere doing a very good job of looking American and not speaking until a woman danced up, apparently protesting nuclear power. She was pretending to punch one ofthem, but when she got too close he spoke to her with a perfect German accent, “ Nein, nein, nein”.
By this time it was about 7 p.m., and we were exhausted, so we took the train back to our room.
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