Communist Heritage
The fall of the wall – in the town of Obersuhl ! Unmatched excitement experienced only during events of historic proportions. German-German euphoria because of the peaceful revolution and hope for change. At the same time, a greatly mismanaged economy and total collapse continue in the East. The Russian provinces to which I used to travel with writer Elfie Siegel, my colleague from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ ) reflect morbid scenes of enormous scope in this vast country.
Trabbi (Trabant = East German car)-Convoy on the first Sunday after the opening of the inner German border between the states of Hesse and Thuringian, near the town of Obersuhl. November 12,1989
Monday demonstration. Leipzig, October 1989
Arrival of embassy refugees from Prague. Hof, October 3, 1989
Removing weapons at IMES Camp of Schalck-Golodkowski. Kavelsdorf, December 1989
Lenin Memorial on the fairgrounds in Leipzig, 1992
Land mine – discovered when clearing mines in the so-called death strip at the formerly inner German border between the states of Hesse and Thuringia, 1993
German chancellor Helmut Kohl speaking at his election campaign in Erfurt, March 1990
These iron sailors are reminders of the stronghold of the Red Volga war fleet in Gorki, the formerly forbidden city – today called Nizhny Nowgorod. Russia, 1993
Party slogans in the power plant of the collective combine "Petschenga-Nikel" in Nikels. Russia, 1996
New cement buildings in Murmansk. Russia, 1996
Female beggars at Red Square Mall in Moscow Russia, 1993
Only a few wooden houses remain in the new subdivision "Micro Rayon II" in Tjumen in Sibiria – most were replaced by cement buildings. Russia, 1993
A sand storm crosses Nizhny Vartovsk in the Tjumen region in southwest Siberia. Russia, 1993
Oil workers on an oil field in the Siberian tundra. Russia, 1993
Young honorary guard solders at a memorial for the fallen of the black sea fleet in second world war. Sevastopol, Ukraine, 1994
Chechnyans demonstrate against Russian occupiers in front of the president’s palace. Grozny, Chechnya, February, 1996
Chechnyans demonstrate against Russian occupiers in front of the president’s palace. Grozny, Chechnya, February, 1996
Demonstrators raise the Chechnyan flag on the roof of the president’s palace in Grozny. Chechnya, February, 1996
Chechnyans demonstrate against Russian occupiers in front of the president’s palace. Grozny, Chechnya, February 6, 1996
Chechnyan resistant fighters near Novo Grosnenskoje. Chechnya, 1996
Aghyn – a settlement in Southeast Siberia. Russia, 1996
Coffee break in an urban machine shop in Chita. Russia, 1996
Monks on their way home after service in the Russian-orthodox church’s monastary on Solovki Island in the White Sea. Russia, 2004
Border patrol unit at the Russian-Chinese border east of Zabajkalsk. Russia, 1996
Lenin memorial in Nizhny Nowgorod. Russia, 1993