Monatsarchive: Juli 2018

You can read about Janowska here.

Guardian: The CD is not the first bizarre White House offering to Pyongyang. During their summit, the US and North Korean delegations watched a four-minute video, made in the style of a Hollywood trailer, setting out the North’s stark choice: … Weiterlesen →

Monument as seen from the street. It’s visible, if you know where to look. So „murdered by the Nazis“ is a phrase easier to write than defend. The professors were murdered by Ukrainians under Nazi direction. Many of the names … Weiterlesen →

Bubbled a tire hitting a hole too fast yesterday and couldn’t find anything in Uman‘, but found a shop in Lviv with a huge warehouse of tires. Great price, fast, friendly service.

Eternal flame to honor the Heroes who died defending the Homeland. If you are unable to see an eternal flame burning, that’s because it has gone out. The burner is on the base of the memorial immediately in front of … Weiterlesen →

The memorial appears just as it had on-line from Berlin, and as it looks in the model in Odessa. Here when you read the inscription saying 54,600 people are buried at this location, you are standing on the earth which … Weiterlesen →

Berezivka is quite a small town. This memorial with its outline of Afghanistan reminds me of the Island of Tears in Minsk. When Brzezinski told Carter „We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam“ he was saying … Weiterlesen →

I found this article in the Guardian too funny all the way through to be able to choose excerpts to quote. Part of me wants to go up to Helsinki and hang out while this is going on, but you … Weiterlesen →