Tag: Soviet Union
Zelensky: Russian army “stopped” in eastern Ukraine
Russia reports deaths from Ukrainian shelling in border region 9:09 a.m.: According to authorities, a man was killed by shelling in the western Russian region of Kursk on the border…
Vladimir Sorokin: Doctor Garin is a novel about Putin – culture
When West German society was still completely immersed in a dream in which Putin was our good friend, Vladimir Sorokin had long since seen what was coming. He told the…
1944 – Crescendo of destruction: Christian Bommarius on the Second World War – Politics
By the early summer of 1944, the war had long since become unwinnable for the Germans. But with the landing of the Allies on the coast of Normandy on June…
“Kharkov School of Photography” in the Wolfsburg Art Museum – Culture
The long Brezhnev era of the Soviet Union, which ended forty years ago, was later labeled “Golden Age of Stagnation.” This idea of a peaceful standstill is of course very…
Munich: The Werner Herzog Film Prize 2023 will be awarded – Munich
He has lived in Los Angeles for many years, but Werner Herzog visits Munich every year in October. This is where he was born and where the foundation named after…
Radio concert by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: Here comes the fire department
In honor of the Russian theater director Meyerhold, Vladimir Jurowski conducts a “radio lesson” with old stage music – including an unusually jazzy Shostakovich. source site
Nationalism, sexism, autocracy: Sabine Fischer on Putin’s politics – Politics
Sabine Fischer interprets Putin’s politics as chauvinistic rule, where the law of the strongest dominates. And she explains how Europe could avoid another cycle of patriarchal violence. It takes courage…
Karl Schlögel: "American Matrix": "The question is: Do we hold our nerve?"
Karl Schlögel is actually an Eastern European historian. Now in “American Matrix” he explores what holds America together – and what ailing infrastructure reveals about the state of a society.…
NATO Eastern Expansion: New Book with the Historical Evidence – Politics
In her book, historian Mary E. Sarotte presents the “true history of NATO’s eastward expansion.” A conversation about the motives of politicians in 1990, the strange role of Hans-Dietrich Genscher…
Russian film industry is not allowed to go to Europe, it shoots in Kaliningrad – culture
Berlin is sometimes relocated to Russia, and Sweden with its beaches and dunes is also there from time to time. Illusions, produced in Kaliningrad. The old villa on Kutusow Street,…