Communist Manifesto is now fashionable again in Europe

Karl Marx is once again under discussion in East Germany - only this time on a slightly more capitalistic version. Credit card with the Communist Manifesto, the father has become a storhit among bank customers in Chemnitz in the former East Germany.

Over a third of customers at the Sparkasse Bank has chosen cards in which a serious Karl Marx looking towards the MasterCard logo. The bank has even been questioned by West Germans who want to open accounts to receive their own card Marx. Before the Berlin Wall, Chemnitz was called Karl-Marx-Stadt and a seven-meter high bronze bust of Marx still sits in the center. Recently, eastern Germany have seen a wave of nostalgia for the former DDR where freedom was certainly limited, but the inhabitants were guaranteed jobs and social security.

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