Karl Marx Monument (Neuhardenberg)

After the Second World War, the place was renamed on May 1, 1949 by order of the Municipal Council of 19 February 1949 in honor of Karl Marx in Marxwalde until 1991. The exact reasons for the new place name are not known, a connection with the rejection of the Prussian past and their representatives by the new rulers is close. The landowner Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg was again expropriated in 1945 by the land reform and fled to his possessions to Lower Saxony. Until 1952, the CDU put the mayor.
Source: Wikipedia

The Karl Marx monument in Neuhardenberg is located at the western end of the village green on Karl Marx Allee. The municipality was called Marxwalde from 1949 to 1990. The bust has two predecessors: a clay bust was erected in 1953 that did not last long. The second stone memorial was erected in 1968 in the park of Neuhardenberg Castle and was there until 1987. Today's bust, created by the sculptor Fritz Cremer, was inaugurated on May 5, 1988. After the political change in 1989 it was toppled from its pedestal and in 1993 it was solemnly erected again on the initiative of the PDS.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Marx-Denkmal_(Neuhardenberg)

Here you can find an example of good socialist architecture in the form of a single-family homestead. I don't mean to say that this was typical of rural or small-town development in the GDR. In any case, the current residents try very hard not to spoil it with fashionable trivia.