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FEATURE soviet : Soviet nostalgia: Russian drink, bunker parties and film in Vilnius

Soviet nostalgia: Russian drink, bunker parties and film in Vilnius

Twenty years after the Iron Curtain, the Baltic tiger is experiencing a bout of nostalgia. A young, trendy generation, fed up of hearing about the past, is looking back at a not-quite-so ‘carefree’ childhood under the soviet regime

by Katharina Kloss @ // 25/06/09

soviet, good bye lenin, giedrė beinoriūtė, marius ivaškevičius, lenin, joseph stalin, reunification

ANALYSIS soviet : Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on

Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on

On 21 August Prague commemorated forty years of it’s famous democratic ‘spring’, which ended revolt in the capital this past century. The spontaneous protest caught the world by surprise, before it was reprimanded by the Soviet regime. Images

by Boris Svartzman @ // 22/08/08

soviet, activism, photogallery, photo, youth, photography, violence

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1968: a tour of Europe's revolts

Spain, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland and Germany - spinning through Europe's uprisings during that infamous year of rebellion

by Jane Mery @ // 23/01/08

soviet, freedom of opinion, italy, democratisation, purchasing power, protest, feminism

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Red Statues – Position in Negotiations

The 9th of May is the day of victory in the Second World War for Russia. For Lithuania, as well as for other Baltic countries, this date means something totally different. That is the beginning of the occupation. Occupation, which itself is a negative action, because the nation loses its ...

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