Communist-era

The building was a typical relic of World War II shrapnel damage, Communist-era neglect and post-Berlin Wall materialism -- satellite dishes hanging over a urine-stenched entrance hall.

Remembering Baerbel Bohley, an artist who helped bring down the Berlin Wall Marc Fisher 2010

The Scandinavian artist Sissel Tolaas has created the smell of fear for an exhibit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and designed a scent that mimicked the smell of a smoky, Communist-era Berlin subway platform for a British gallery show.

What's That Smell? Alexandra Alter 2012

[I] t occurred to me that an updated version of an old Communist-era joke may be appropriate: under Bush, financial policy consisted of Wall Street types cutting sweet deals, at taxpayer expense, for Wall Street types.

Matthew Yglesias » Explaining Communist Jokes 2009

Even the sanatoriums of old, holdovers from the Communist-era in both feel and style, are adopting improvements.

Latvia's Burgeoning Spa Scene Jemima Sissons 2011

Another issue for Lady Worcester and other campaigners is guaranteed loans through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development that are used to help corporations purchase farms and infrastructure from Communist-era institutions.

The Maverick Marchioness Bruce Palling 2011

This year, I discover later, £ 120,000 was spent on several works, including a roll of Communist-era Czechoslovakian lavatory paper with inscriptions by the late Julius Koller.

Overloading at Frieze Andrew McKie 2010

And the art of the literary fugue is "vain," that is, unapologetically aesthetic, without pretense to psychological enlightenment or social commentary (although the occasional image of a tank rolling through the streets of Bucharest does certainly evoke Communist-era realities).

Experimental Fiction 2010

A native of Germany, Ms. Kagan recalled Communist-era subway tokens and money made from plastic or from metals that rust.

Will Nickel-Free Nickels Make a Dime's Worth of Difference? 2010

Until the Tulip Revolution, four of the five former Soviet republics that make up the region were still run by the Communist-era strongmen — who controlled an estimated 35 percent of the world's natural-gas supplies.

Despotism Doesn’t Equal Stability 2010

In the suburbs of Alipasina, Communist-era apartment blocks remain riddled with bullet holes from the war of the 90s, their surfaces pitted like sand after rain.

A new look at Bosnia Herzegovina Sophie Cooke 2010