It’s 9 pm and the Panda Theater is packed out. A tattooed poet with a pierced nose and hair dyed a muddy red bounds on stage, eyes on fire. “Through the glorious fields of Russia rolls a mighty salami,” he declaims. “Trains, boats and planes perish under the blows of the salami/And villages and cities tremble at the onslaught of the salami.”
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A couple holds a Russian and German flag at the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptow district on May 9, 2015.
