Past War and Present Peace: the Siege of Leningrad Then and Now


It was a terrible time and difficult for us to imagine, when people froze to death and cooked soups from their belts and wallpaper glue just to stay alive. So how do we put ourselves in their shoes and see into the past? One man has assembled a collection of disturbing images from those dark days and collaged them with colorful images from present times. The results are spectacular, stark and thought-provoking.

“The Siege of Leningrad, also known as The Leningrad Blockade was an unsuccessful military operation by the Axis (Nazi) powers to capture Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during World War II. The siege lasted from September 9, 1941, to January 27, 1944, when a narrow land corridor to the city was established by the Soviets. The total lifting of the siege occurred on January 27, 1944. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest and most destructive sieges of major cities in modern history and it was the second most costly.

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@Frau - the UQ process is not perfect. Posts that should make it often didn't because of the photo (or lack of it) or the description.

Editors usually look at every single subs to counterbalance the votes but sometimes there's too many posts and not enough time ... Sorry!
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To me, these pictures give an impression how somehow time is not lineair- What has happened- in a sence still is happening while the present is unfolding. Like if in some way you still could see, hear, feel the echoes of those past times, of the peoples that lived and fought and died there. Indeed- Haunting...
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Wow - what a surprise. Another thing I submitted to the que back in february, that got voted down.
A clear example that people were voting down the topics because of the submitter.
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Yes, but aside from the intro blurb, Bullitt is not among the top ten? And look, no Gone in 60 Seconds (the original), in which the last 45 minutes is non-stop awesome chase scene. It's still a cool list, just erroneously titled.
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Yes... Those years have passed.
Now everywhere at cinema the computer drawing.
And all the same it is appreciable that in a film the artificial car is used.
And you it is frequent at cinema notice the such?
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The cool thing about "Gone in 60 seconds" (the first one) is that they filmed the movie on real streets with no extras. All the people you see on the streets in the background are people who just happened to be there. They couldn't get away with making a movie that cool these days. It should be in the #1 spot.
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They all featured squealing tires... even on dirt roads.
And in Bullit, Steve McQueen pulls off the greatest stunt ever. It's never been done since. He parallel parks, gets out, and locks his car! A Hollywood first!
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