Aleksandr Mikheev’s Reviews > In Search of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City > Status Update
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"The sociologist George Steinmetz points out that national health insurance, industrial accident insurance and old-age pensions, all introduced by Bismark in the 1880s, were an effective way of lulling the working classes into complacency".
— Dec 25, 2024 09:41AM
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"In 1919, a loaf of bread cost one mark; by 1923, the same loaf cost 100 billion marks".
— Jan 02, 2025 12:31PM
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"Please, gentlemen, a medal for a woman, that is really going too far." - the king, Wilhelm II, about Käthe Kollwitz winning a gold medal at Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1898
— Dec 26, 2024 10:23AM
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About 1870s: "The problem was the shortage of accommodation that was barely habitable for people on slender or middle incomes. Even public officials struggled. The city's mayor, Arthur Hobrecht, had to scour far and wide to find an apartment in his own city that he could afford on a bureaucrat's salary."
— Dec 25, 2024 08:46AM
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"There are no revolutions in Germany, because the police would not allow it"
— Dec 20, 2024 08:36AM
