Of course, Newton is exaggerating here. Debs was the Socialist candidate, not the Communist candidate.
Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, was more or less a joyless mudhole when Frederick the Great came to power. By the time he left, he had transformed it into a joyless mudhole with slightly more Rococo buildings than normal.
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– Count Dolby von Luckner