I stood and listened to the woman with the bullhorn for a few minutes. I’m always struck by the Great Patriotic War starting in June 1941, and Molotov-Ribbentrop ignored. I was also impressed with seeing BRD on one banner calling for resistance to war agitation and DDR on its neighbor where 40 years of socialism are credited to Russia.
While I was standing a Latex Berlin tour came by, with half a dozen fetishists outfitted in what were probably pretty warm latex suits, accompanying curious tourists across Alexanderplatz. Two men to my right joked about this being, after all, Berlin, and mused about a Leather Tour. That seemed generally the reception granted the protesters as well – mild curiosity at the entertainment. It was hard to see this as „political activism“.