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This image shows an interesting artifact of East German street signage. Notice the grey line on the lampost on the right? That's a simulated signpost, something that used to be a fairly common sight in the GDR, and some still survive.

Nothing wrong with posting a traffic sign on a lamp post, you might think (and I agree). Yet the East German authorities viewed it differently. However, because of the shortage of materials, signs where posted on non-dedicated posts - lamp posts - anyhow, yet to make this misappropriation right, a virtual signpost had to be painted onto the lamp post.

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