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22 Sep 2008
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23 Nov 2008
By Alexandra Szőke/sinisterpenguin (Budapest)
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 Paintings to penises to pálinka to punk to priests - all changes from below
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Backyard Resistance: Art as Savoir-Vivre |
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21 Nov 2008
By Maria-Alina Asavei (Iasi - Budapest)
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 Who wishes to retrospectively become a hero? Does she/he? My characters don’t seem to wish that. They simply confess their normality within an abnormal environment.
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Below the Belt: Nudism in Ceausescu’s Romania |
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18 Nov 2008
By Irina Costache (Bucharest)
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 Take your clothes off and enter Vama Veche
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Is there a season to everything? |
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21 Nov 2008
By Tina Wünschmann (Dresden)
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 People moved on. But do the ideas move on? Don’t we need the spirit of this ‘era’ today as well? - Some recent thoughts and an interview about Poland’s “Orange Alternative”. Movements from the 1980’s are history. Mission accomplished.
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21 Nov 2008
By Siarhei Liubimau (Warsaw)
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 Gr.Ob. You can’t enter a block of flats in the ex-USSR without seeing it. But the answer behind what it means continues to prove elusive
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23 Nov 2008
By Alexandra Szőke (Budapest)
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 Cycling shorts, Limahl stickers, blue jeans, Mickey Mouse belts – what were your most precious foreign acquisitions during socialism?
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21 Nov 2008
By Vera Scepanovic (Podgorica-Budapest)
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 Or how comics ate out the soul of Communism in SFRY
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Resistance with a Moustache-less Face |
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23 Nov 2008
By sinisterpenguin (Budapest)
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 A brave freedom fighter with even less hair than brains
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Totally Surrealist, Bejbi: Midnight Authors & Orange Alternative |
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21 Nov 2008
By Trever Hagen (Prague)
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 Architects, artists and sculptors of Socialist Realism gave us wonderfully boxy buildings, chiselled-jaw proletariat posters and Gulliver-sized statues to admire with disbelief… it also provided for artists not-so-keen on the state aesthetic to develop their own artistic interpretation of society.
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21 Nov 2008
By Olena Fedyuk (Budapest)
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 An essay on the ambiguous feelings of Soviet citizens towards the West, or how my parents travelled abroad from Soviet Ukraine...
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“Getting Food” in Communist Romania |
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18 Nov 2008
By Ágnes Gagyi (Budapest-Cluj)
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 About villages built on palinka, “resolving” all society’s problems and chicken's knees.
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The Golden Age Forever Marked by Inexplicable Loss |
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18 Nov 2008
By Ferenc Laczó (Budapest)
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 The Golden Team of Hungarian football history: inexplicable fall, excusatory rumours and political regimes...
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18 Nov 2008
By Katarzyna Pabijanek (Warsaw)
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 Let's get physical, physical
I wanna get physical
Let's get into physical
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Let me hear your body talk
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East-German Pastors and do-gooders |
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07 May 2009
By Kristin Höltge (London)
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 An East-German pastor provides space for political discussions and actions to the youth who did not want to fit in the synchronised masses.
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“Péter Erdős you motherfucker…” |
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17 May 2009
By Daniel Mikecz (Buda)
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 The punk movement in communist Hungary
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Petersburg. New dimension |
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21 Nov 2008
By Paulina Jędrzejewska (Warsaw)
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 Russia is stuck in it’s post-Soviet territory, overwhelmed with the empire feeling... it’s quite easy to rule over this huge mass of people who were made to loose their roots... There are no changes from below in Russia. People simply don’t want to.
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