Comments on: About and against dictatorships http://www.writingforyeu.eu/2009/10/about-and-against-dictatorships/ A blog for a team. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:43:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben Rooney http://www.writingforyeu.eu/2009/10/about-and-against-dictatorships/comment-page-1/#comment-2476 Ben Rooney Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:20:56 +0000 http://www.writingforyeu.eu/?p=2345#comment-2476 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @stctweets: Great post reacting to the Sahkarov Prize by my Romanian colleague. It was just twenty years ago... http://tiny.cc/Mu4LQ #EP</span></span> RT @stctweets: Great post reacting to the Sahkarov Prize by my Romanian colleague. It was just twenty years ago… http://tiny.cc/Mu4LQ #EP

]]> By: Mindaugas http://www.writingforyeu.eu/2009/10/about-and-against-dictatorships/comment-page-1/#comment-769 Mindaugas Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:07:20 +0000 http://www.writingforyeu.eu/?p=2345#comment-769 nice post, Cristina. In the atmosphere of terror humour was the only weapon helping to survive. Nevertheless, you had to be careful - even the walls had ears in those days. Hence, it is strange that in some cases certain things managed to unnoticed thought the eyes of censors. A Lithuanian example from a bit later, 1981 - one shoe of this Lenin had no shoe-lace. http://www.grutoparkas.lt/pict/leninas.htm A hidden message from the artist… Let's come back to the current Russia. Hooray for what MEMORIAL, condolences to those still loosing their lives in the neighbourhood of the EU. There are still many statues of the great Stalin adored by many ordinary Russians. Genocide, mass killings, deportations of millions and Holodomor are forgotten. The campaign to rehabilitate Stalin (elected the 3rd greatest Russian by an online vote) is intensifying, schoolbooks that "forget" to mention hidden protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact are being published... I better write a blog entry on that... :( nice post, Cristina. In the atmosphere of terror humour was the only weapon helping to survive. Nevertheless, you had to be careful – even the walls had ears in those days. Hence, it is strange that in some cases certain things managed to unnoticed thought the eyes of censors. A Lithuanian example from a bit later, 1981 – one shoe of this Lenin had no shoe-lace. http://www.grutoparkas.lt/pict/leninas.htm A hidden message from the artist…

Let’s come back to the current Russia. Hooray for what MEMORIAL, condolences to those still loosing their lives in the neighbourhood of the EU.

There are still many statues of the great Stalin adored by many ordinary Russians. Genocide, mass killings, deportations of millions and Holodomor are forgotten.

The campaign to rehabilitate Stalin (elected the 3rd greatest Russian by an online vote) is intensifying, schoolbooks that “forget” to mention hidden protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact are being published… I better write a blog entry on that… :(

]]> By: Stephen Clark http://www.writingforyeu.eu/2009/10/about-and-against-dictatorships/comment-page-1/#comment-2477 Stephen Clark Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:53:38 +0000 http://www.writingforyeu.eu/?p=2345#comment-2477 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Great post reacting to the Sahkarov Prize by my Romanian colleague, Cristina. It was just twenty years ago... http://tiny.cc/Mu4LQ #EP</span></span> Great post reacting to the Sahkarov Prize by my Romanian colleague, Cristina. It was just twenty years ago… http://tiny.cc/Mu4LQ #EP

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