Radio Free Europe: Artists Fight To Save Ukraine's Soviet-Era Mosaics From Demolition, Neglect

Starting in the 1960s, countless public buildings in Ukraine were adorned with mosaics depicting scenes of Soviet life or elements of communist ideology. Some of these works were later destroyed by vandals or removed by property owners. But remaining mosaics have also piqued a new wave of interest from artists and citizens who see them as a unique part of Ukraine's history.

tcha, Komrade...

a general problem with all those iconoclasms of our days...
be they against marble, ceramics, or even (one word!) plastics...

or even a single word, just one word: (censored!)...



(seen here)


ja, Komrade 'pelipsky, it's endlos, endlos.....

'pelipksy admired artist not willin' to look at sh*t and was willin' to piss away her own time making things better. Was such a juxtaposition here where empty plinths stand where once stood giants. Was such a relief that magnificent memorial = 'pelipsky dare not tell self, location of - but when anxiously traveled blvd approaching, there it was!! In all its Grecitorian glory!!!

Hope.