in Soviet times, seen through the lens of local photographers.
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The Baltic states
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Baltics, Estonia, latvia, Lithuania, photography, Soviet Union on 27 November 2013 by delclemSoviet architectures
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Baltic Soviet republics, cultural history, Estonia, exhibition, latvia, Lithuania, socialist architecture, Soviet Union on 24 November 2012 by delclem
“The Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW) takes a look in its current exhibition at the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR. The stories about Soviet modernism related by researchers and eye witnesses are practically unknown. ‘We dispell once and for all the myth that the architecture in the former Soviet Union was completely different from the West,’ says AzW director Dietmar Steiner at the presentation of the new exhibition. The elaborate research and exhibition project takes a close look at the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.” >Text & photos (c) wieninternational.at 2012
The Waffen-SS as “European Freedom Fighters” – excuse me?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Estonia, Germany, National Socialism, Waffen-SS, World War Two on 26 January 2012 by delclem
“Despised & ostracized, the Swedish community of Waffen-SS volunteers long gathered in secret on April 14 (…) for obscure ritualistic annual gatherings at a cemetery in a Stockholm suburb.
Since the 1990s, the rituals have not needed to be clandestine: the few, now very elderly survivors now head to Sinimäe, Estonia, where they feel they are now getting the honor to which they are entitled. Here, Swedish, Norwegian, Austrian, German and other Waffen-SS veterans from Western Europe meet up with their Estonian comrades and neo-Nazi followers. (…)
According to the Tageszeitung, this March the Estonian parliament will now consider a law, which would formally designate the Estonian Waffen-SS veterans as “Freedom Fighters.” Article by Per A. Rudling (c) Defending History.com, 2012
Interview with Dr. Rudling (c) hitlersforeignexecutioners.com, 2012
delirium clemens 