Monument to the Cheka – the soldiers of the Revolution @ Lybidska Square // Kiev // Ukraine
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Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II // Ukraine
Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II // Kiev // Ukraine)
One after the other …
In 2015 the Ukrainian parliament has voted to ban propaganda and symbols of totalitarian, Communist and Nazi regimes on its territory.
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.
The Hamilton Road // Iraqi Kurdistan
Walking the famous “Hamilton road” .
Between 1928 and 1932 Archie Hamilton, an engineer from New Zealand, built strategic road across Iraqi Kurdistan, which ran from Arbil to the Iranian border. Hamilton hoped the road would unite the local tribes of the area and to bring outside influence in that isolated region.