Every day we go on to the streets, dying at his defenders who thought about us. About us, that they were not destined to see. But we can remember!
And imagine that the horror that the people was to survive.
WWII era Photographs, I assume, of
Leningrad combined with current photographs. This era has also recently been portrayed effectively by David Benioff in his novel
City of Thieves. Found the pictures via
Warren Ellis who thinks the photographer may be Sergei Larenkov.
posted by zzazazz
on Jan 29, 2009 -
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Belomorkanal. The history of the canal between the White Sea and Leningrad, constructed using penal labour and opened 'in Stalin's name' in 1933.
From the
International Institute of Social History's collections. Of related interest :-
Photo Album Van Marken ('one of the first Dutch entrepreneurs who took care of the social welfare of his employees.');
the William Morris Archive;
Zo d'Axa ('Adventurer, traveller, anti-militarist, individualist, satirist, journalist, founder of two of the most legendary French magazines of the 1890s');
Auguste Fabre's 'Les Sky Scratchers', an optimistic vision from the 1890s;
Sylvain Maréchal, who 'proposed a new calendar replacing the names of the Saints with those of the "benefactors of humanity" '. More inside.
posted by plep
on Oct 2, 2003 -
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