The exposition was dominated by the monster pavilions, facing off against each other, of Nazi Germany (left) and the Soviet Union (right).

Picture taken from the Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro).

Those have a look of underexposed Ektachromes. I must find some time to go to the gallery show...

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

Following the pavilion face-off at the Paris Expo higher upthread, here we have the face-off in the posters during the war in, apparently, Nice (see above hoarding).

On the left, the Nazis were of course fighting terra. The Reds were guilty of Katyn, Vinnitza (I don't know what happened there except it's a Ukrainian town that was nastily visited by the SS Einsatzgruppen...), and the Haute Savoie (as margouillat notes), probably because of maquis activity.

What is the adjectif after "TERRORISME" that is hidden by the passer-by? Sibérien? ???

To the right, we have the good guys who are out in the snow fighting terra: the F that is visible is the end of LVF, the Légion des Volontaires Français, a French Kollabo volunteer unit that fought on the Eastern front. There were not many volunteers.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

No, that's the Soviet War Memorial, built by the Soviets themselves, which pre-dates the formation of East Germany (DDR) by four years.

Some might find it might interesting that there is one in Wienna, too, there called Soviet Heroes' Monument, and it's well-maintained. (Where the cruel irony is that many of those 'heroes' have, after the express approval of their generals, committed the two biggest rampages of mass rape after the taking of just these two cities.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

As I told last time you posted it, it was damn familiar for me. Of course it was -- I was there!

But it is not in Italy. Just North of it: Brig, Switzerland, the Stockalper Castle and the College Church, with the Riederhorn in the background:

Webcam with the Stockalper Castle:

I had a suspicion about Switzerland, because those special arm-rests for wooden seats are a 'luxury' I'd expect only there, and indeed now I found  a picture of a former SBB 3rd class wooden interior:

So if the inscription above the door is "Don't smoke" in Italian,  Fran was right, and this was somewhere in the Italian part of Switzerland at the end of WWII.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

The trouble is that sometimes the "who" doesn't even ring a bell to the matriarch (95 years old mother)... Who jokingly evacuates the problem by saying it must have been her/his lover/mistress... Which usually sends a chilling return glance from that part of the family :-)

Those were the times... :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

On top of Dog Mountain (1000 m) in the Spring fog -

paul spencer

Just after the events a new billboard was set on the old wall. 39 years later it was torn down for a new "high tech" one, revealing this archeological surprise :-) . The tag stayed for about a month before being erased, the wall grouted anew, then the new billboard was set up !

I'm sure there are others waiting to see the light again :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

I went back in time and read the precedent pictures blogs (or diaries, or salon ?) to see from where we came from (I did miss a lot being out of ET for some time) !

The "salon" format (history, nowadays, klatsch, etc.) might be a good idea, as it triggers appropriate responses... I just hope the server doesn't go haywire with all that bandwidth used !

After all, we do live in a picture driven society... A friend of mine once asked me "What do we do with the artifacts of image"?... I'm still musing about it without having a answer !

 Still, photography is the "enfant du siècle" (child of the century), because of that, it's nice that ET found a place for it :-)
Next time we might chat about Capa's "Mexican suitcase" and HCB's beliefs  ?
Thanks' again ...

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

Maybe when I'll be retired !

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman