
Spomenik – Iconic Modern Art from Tito’s Yugoslavia
Soon after the end of the war Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia started a fight against the Soviet … Continue reading Spomenik – Iconic Modern Art from Tito’s Yugoslavia
Soon after the end of the war Tito and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia started a fight against the Soviet … Continue reading Spomenik – Iconic Modern Art from Tito’s Yugoslavia
While almost all nuclear sites you can find in European Countries once beyond the Iron Curtain are today totally abandoned … Continue reading Plokstine – A Preserved Nuclear Missile Site in Lithuania
Historians defined World War I as the first ‘worldwide conflict’. There is probably no better place to appreciate the multi-ethnic … Continue reading WWI Battlefields – Somme, Arras and Ypres
A nice and lively university town in the heart of the Estonian countryside, Tartu has really something for every kind … Continue reading The Estonian Aviation Museum
Similar to the neighbor republics of Estonia and Lithuania, Latvia was occupied by the Soviets a first time in 1939 … Continue reading Soviet Leftovers in Latvia
Murmansk is a port town in the northwestern corner of todays Russian Federation. It bolsters the biggest population among the … Continue reading A Walk in Murmansk – A Soviet Industrial Port of Our Time
Most travel agencies selling trips to Romania agree on the fact that Bucharest is surely not the best this big Country … Continue reading Communist Relics in Bucharest
Saint Petersburg is one of the two ‘big cities’ in Russia which you’ll likely be touching during your visit to … Continue reading Places with a Soviet Flavor in Saint Petersburg
Among the most unequivocal signs of the oppressive communist dictatorship in the former German Democratic Republic – ‘GDR’ or ‘DDR’ … Continue reading STASI Prisons and Headquarters in Berlin and the GDR
Peenemünde is broadly known for having hosted the first ever large-scale research center and test ground for military rockets, missiles, … Continue reading Peenemünde Army Research Facility