Remember!

The recording of this poem used to play every hour (maybe still does) near the Monument to the Unknown Sailor in Odessa, Ukraine. After few times I instinctively tuned out the somber voice of the announcer. Today, many years after the World War II, it has a different meaning.

I was named after my

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May 9th, 2010 | Category: Behind the Iron Curtain, Nostalgia | Comments are closed

Siege Of Leningrad

January 27th is an anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad – one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of the World War II. 900 days of bombing and starvation claimed over 600,000 lives.

Someone overlayed old photos of the blockade with the photos of St. Petersburg today to create haunting images at the

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January 27th, 2009 | Category: Behind the Iron Curtain, Old Photos | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)