#iron curtain

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wall of Barrels - Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti, Paris, France, 1962

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Mircea Suciu, Iron Curtain

[easternblocrelics]

East Berlin East Germany Color Negative 1981

[tilbageidanmark]

November 9, 1989

[matthew-pasquarello]

buzzy satellite television face of the unknown other, if the porch light's on i'll meet you at the back door to figure out our grand exit, for escape would be the easy part

you think i'd be able to call you collect naked and frigid from behind the iron curtain?

[eyegens]

This painting is a mess, but I liked it enough 🌷

[palominocorn]

Y'all, if you wouldn't reblog from someone with a swastika icon (and why would you do that), then don't reblog from someone with a hammer and sickle icon. It's really that simple.

I know it's tempting, as people who have never lived under the USSR, to assume that everything you learned about the horrors that happened behind the Iron Curtain was just capitalist propaganda, but as someone whose family lived it? It was worse than what high school social studies taught you.

The hammer and sickle is a symbol of state terror. Of genocide. Of bigotry. Of too many abuses to list. It's a symbol drenched in fear and blood and pain.

And it's not a symbol that you can reclaim. We, the survivors and descendants of the communist bloc, are the ones who decide whether we can turn it into a symbol of resistance, and we have decided: no. The wounds are too raw and the fear is too deep.

To the people actually affected by the hammer and sickle, it is still a symbol of violence. Put it down. Leave it be. Let us recover.

[falkonryderz]

[thenwothm]

"GYPSY ROCKER" BY IRON CURTAIN UNVEILED

On February 16th, 2024 internationally, Dying Victims Productions will release Iron Curtain’s highly anticipated fifth album, Savage Dawn, on CD and vinyl LP formats. And today, Deaf Forever magazine’s website premieres the new track “Gypsy Rocker.” Hear Iron Curtain’s “Gypsy Rocker” in its entirety exclusively HERE.  For nearly 20 years now, Spanish metal inquisition Iron Curtain have been…

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Birthday time!

I only have a closed-eyes picture for now, but Rod took after Miles—just like Iron.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

JUST ABOUT READY TO EXPLODE WITH THE FINEST IN AMSTERDAM HARDCORE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Dutch hardcore punk band B.G.K. (BALTHASAR GERARDS KOMMANDO), performing live in former Ljubljana, Yugoslavia during their tour with UPSET NOISE from Italy, c. December 1984. 📸: Don Verbanac.

Steven Walraven, a.k.a., "Wilhelm Ruis," (guitar, 1980-84).

Bassist Tony Leeuwenburgh, a.k.a., "Tony Slug," can be seen in the back, another legend lost.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3383014030156443085.

[pitch-and-moan]

The Greatest Mauerfall Ever Fell

The story of the fall of the Berlin Wall, except instead of people dancing on the wall and taking chunks of it as souvenirs and rushing across the border, the populations of both East and West Berlin line up in a calm, orderly fashion and slap one another low fives, muttering, "good game, good game" in German.

[tmarshconnors]

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

[wewerealwaysthere]

Even behind the Iron Curtain

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

When will Russia close with the IRON CURTAIN? The BALTIC countries forecast

Finland begins confiscating cars with Russian license plates. Previously, such a decision was made by the authorities of Lithuania and Latvia. The Baltic countries actively continue to isolate themselves from the Russian Federation. The next stage in limiting ties with Russia is a ban on the import of products from the aggressor country. We talk in detail about this topic live on the FREEDOM TV channel with Estonian political scientist Peeter Taim.

Когда Россия закроется ЖЕЛЕЗНЫМ ЗАНАВЕСОМ? Страны БАЛТИИ прогнозируют

Финляндия начинает конфискацию автомобилей с российскими номерами. Ранее такое решение было принято властями Литвы и Латвии. Страны Балтии активно продолжают отгораживаться от РФ. Следующий этап в ограничении связей с Россией – запрет на импорт продукции из страны-агрессора. Подробно на эту тему в прямом эфире теле��анала FREEДОМ говорим с эстонским политологом Пеэтером Таймом.)

P.S. Russia's closest neighbors understand best what hotbed of malignant infection the Kremlin has created in Russia...! The only way to prevent its spread is to impose a total quarantine regime on the border...

[theplathwitchcraft]

Behind the Iron Curtain: Sylvia Plath and Hungary during the Cold War

My article on Sylvia Plath, Hungary, and the Iron Curtain is out now. It was published as part a special issue by the French journal E-Rea: “The ‘Edge’ of Sylvia Plath’s Critical History: A Reappraisal of Plath’s Work, 60 years after“. You can find the article here and the abstract below: This article looks at the under-researched topic broadly defined as Sylvia Plath’s relationship with Europe…