Lenin of Tcholpon Ata // Kyrgyzstan
@ Kodak Ektar 100 + airport xray scan artefact
Lenin of Tcholpon Ata // Kyrgyzstan
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Skeiðará Bridge Monument // Iceland
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keiðará Bridge Monument // Iceland
The two twisted girders are the only remnants of the Skeiðará Bridge destroyed by a jökulhlaup ,a volcanic flood, caused by the eruption of the volcano Vatnajökull in 1996.
Memorial to the Holodomor Victims ( 1932-1933 ) // Ukraine
Memorial to the Holodomor Victims ( 1932-1933 ) // Kiev // Ukraine
Holodomor (голодомо́р ) , literraly “Extermination by hunger”, was a man-made famine ( under the guidance of Joseph Stalin) which killed an estimated 2.5 to 7.5 million ukrainian between 1932 and 1933.
Statue of Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky // Minsk // Belarus
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Statue of Cheka ( aka All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage later known as KGB ) founder Felix Dzerzhinsky // Minsk // Belarus
No scholars are sure how many were killed by the Cheka during the soviet ‘Red Terror’ ( 1918–1922 ) and the figures vary widely from 50 000 to a quarter million people.
Obsolete body // Georgia
Obsolete body // Georgia
Berlin’s night – Holocaust Memorial // Germany
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Berlin’s night – Holocaust Memorial // Germany
Brutal history : Monument to the 50th anniversary of Soviet Armenia // Armenia
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On 21 September 1991, Armenia officially declared its independence from Soviet Union after the failed August coup in Moscow
Isle of Tears // Belarus
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Isle of Tears // Minsk // Belarus
The memorial unveiled in 1996 and initialy dedicated to the loss in conflict involving Soviet forces in Afghanistan (1979 – 1988) has rightly become a monument to all sons and daughters of Belarus, who died in the battles of all times.
The Chronicle of Georgia // Georgia
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Started in 1985 under soviet regime, and still partially incomplete, the massive monument overlooks the caucasian city of Tbilisi . Composed of 30 meter tall columns, the georgian “stonehenge” features the stories of ancient queens, heroes and kings of the kingdom of sakartvelo while the bottom panels depict episodes from the life of the Christ.
Past War / Future War // Ukraine
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Again, damn it, radio, television, the papers.
The powers that be, as expected, are consummate crooks.
Those back in the days at least had some fear, today’s are no better.
