“…, but this time the people can read their leaders’ ethnic lies. Protesters were carrying three flags side by side – Bosnian, Serb and Croat, brought together by a radical demand for justice.” >analysis by Slavoj Žižek (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2014
Yugoslavia’s only Olympic Games
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1984, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnian War, Olympic Games, Sarajevo, yugoslavia on 8 February 2014 by delclem
“Thirty years ago, from February 8th to 19th, the fourteenth edition of the Olympic Winter Games was held in Sarajevo. A few years after the Olympic facilities, a symbol of common history and life, were targeted” in the Bosnia War. > full text (c) Osservatorio balcani & caucaso, 2014
Photo (c) flickr
“The knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Marina Abramović, New York, Performance art, Serbia, USA, Yugoslaovia on 7 February 2014 by delclem
An interview with the famous Serbian American artist Marina Abramović
(with many photos of her spectacular body performances) > full text
(c) A Sky filled with Shooting Stars, 2010
No End of the Cold War for Deer in Germany
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Cold War, Europe, Iron curtain, migratory patterns, red deer, wildlife on 6 February 2014 by delclem
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down these herds’ migratory patterns: The barbed wire, electric fences, watchtowers, and heavily armed guards that once lined the Iron Curtain are long gone, but red deer wouldn’t dare jump the border.” >full text (c)ATLANTIC, 2014
“It is Time for a Guinneß…”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1930s, advertising, beer, Germany, Guinness, Ireland, John Guilroy, National Socialism on 31 January 2014 by delclem
“Newly discovered paintings by John Guilroy, the artist behind much of Guinness’s pre-war advertising, reveal that the Dublin brewery had considered promoting the drink in Nazi Germany.” (c) SUNDAY TIMES, 18.01.2014
Nazi Weapon: Mosquitoes?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biological warfare, Germany, inventions, mosquitoes, National Socialism, weapons, World War Two on 27 January 2014 by delclem
This is almost surreal: “Mosquitoes as weapons? It was nearly a real-life threat during World War II, new research suggests.” >full text & photo (c) HUFF POST, 2014
“A monument of self-pity and self-justification” for Hungary
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Arrow Cross, Budapest, collaboration, cultural memory, Fidesz, Germany, Hungary, István Deák, memorials, memory politics, National Socialism, occupation, Second World War, World War on 26 January 2014 by delclem
The renowned Hungarian American historian István Deák on the Monument of German Occupation, 1944-45, which is planned in Budapest by the right-wing nationalist FIDEZ government > text (c) Hungarian Spectrum, 2014
photo of monument draft (c) FACEBOOK, 2014
Understanding Ukraine
Posted in Uncategorized with tags history, nationaism, politics, riots, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclem
Questions about the country in turmoil you are probably to embarrased to ask >full text (c) WASHINGTON POST, 2014. Another 10 questions (c) Business Insider
“Ukraine: The New Dictatorship”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags dictatorship, Nationalism, politics, Timoty Snyder, Ukraine on 25 January 2014 by delclem
An analysis by the renowned Yale historian Timothy Snyder (c) NYR, 2014
“My romance in a town haunted by its Nazi past”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Jewish identity, love, National Socialism, Nazi past, romance, travel literature, Vienna on 21 January 2014 by delclem
“I was a young Jewish woman dating an older man, but I couldn’t escape Vienna’s dark history, or my fears about his.” The following is adapted from “Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour,” Rachel Shukert’s just-published memoir of traveling and living in Europe in her very early 20s. This excerpt takes place in Vienna, in the summer of 2003. >full text & illustration (c) SALON, 2014
PS. Why are these bitter sweet & slightly kitschy stories – a sort of Nazi romance/porn – so highly in demand in the English-speaking world?
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