Ex Utopia @ex_utopia
Vanishing worlds & abandoned places documented by @DarmonRichter | Dark tourism & Cold War relics | Post-communist landscapes | Tour dates at the link. exutopia.com Joined December 2020-
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#NewBelgrade An afternoon exploring the neighbourhoods of New Belgrade with art historian Vladana Putnik Prica.
#Belgrade. 1. House of Mihailo Petrović 2. Statue of Despot Stefan Lazarević 3. Russian Tsar Tavern 4. Inside the Genex Tower
Odessa Catacombs, Ukraine. 7 September 2013. I took these photos exactly 10 years ago today – my first trip into the Odessa Catacombs, one of the world's largest urban labyrinths, with a total length of tunnels believed to extend as far as 2,500 km.
"A Brutalist Xanadu beneath pink skies, where strange children play in the rivers of wine." There's a tool to check if your photos or art have been used in AI training sets. Mine very much have. Playing with these images, from time to time I’ve been experiencing deja vu…
The Disneyfication of #Skopje, #NorthMacedonia. Wonderful, raw, authentic concrete is slowly consumed by plastic plaster and fake pillars. The “Skopje 2014” project, aimed at remodelling the whole city in this new style, is reported to have cost the country ~€560 million.
From iconic works like the National Palace of Culture (NDK) and Hotel Rila, to some less visited gems tucked away in the suburbs... in this new article, I’ve explored 10 of the most noteworthy examples of Modernist architecture in #Sofia, #Bulgaria. travelmag.com/articles/moder…
The extraordinary interiors of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. (Architects V. Gopkalo and V. Grechina, 1976-1989)
This time last month, I attended an exhibition of art by Maria Prymachenko, inside the Ukrainian House International Convention Centre in Kyiv. Don't get me wrong, the art was great... but I confess I spent a lot of my time there gazing up at this ceiling instead.
Yesterday was the 79th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising. Over these two months towards the end of WWII, 250,000 civilians would lose their lives, and 90% of the city’s buildings would be destroyed. Warsaw Uprising Monument. Jacek Budyn & Wincenty Kućma, 1989.
Renovation work at Interhotel Veliko Turnovo. I've just been sent these images showing the latest progress. It looks as though they're doing a good job of preserving the original look and feel of the building, though I'm curious what they're going to do with the interiors.
Sunflowers and storm clouds on the road to Slavutych, #Ukraine. We visited Irpin, Bucha and Borodyanka on Thursday. Chernihiv and Slavutych on Friday. I have seen a lot, and heard many stories. It has been incredibly difficult. But in between there are also moments of beauty.
#Kyiv. Still standing, still beautiful.
East of GMT @EastOfGMT
8K Followers 261 Following Fascinated with 20th century photography, architecture & design of Central and Eastern Europe.
Darmon Richter @DarmonRichter
3K Followers 1K Following Writing about architecture, virtual worlds and places that are not on maps. Author *Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide* @FuelPublishing. PhD in monuments.
lostfoundEurope @LostfoundE
17K Followers 207 Following Photos from good old Europe. Podcast about Czechoslovakia: https://t.co/F1H6HBozfl
Grim Art @GrimArtGroup
75K Followers 26K Following #GrimArt - the beauty & value of the everyday, the ordinary & the overlooked; industrial landscapes, whippets & wastelands, red bricks & rust. #art #photography
Cold War Conversation.. @ColdWarPod
20K Followers 3K Following The award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...subscribe for free. Produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of @RoyalHistSoc
Digital Cosmonaut @iamkosmonaut
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This Brutal House @BrutalHouse
73K Followers 2K Following Brutalism, Design, Music & Stuff That I Like Contact & Poster Sales — [email protected] Book — This Brutal World @phaidon
🏘️ 🏗️ 🇫�.. @Memoire2cite
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Psychojographer @psychojography
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Interflug Airlines @InterflugDDR
15K Followers 14K Following The English language news, information, and flight update X page for INTERFLUG, airline of the German Democratic Republic.
Rebecca Lambert: She/.. @LadyLiminal1
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Bradley Stafford @bocapoIis
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Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals
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East of GMT @EastOfGMT
8K Followers 261 Following Fascinated with 20th century photography, architecture & design of Central and Eastern Europe.
lostfoundEurope @LostfoundE
17K Followers 207 Following Photos from good old Europe. Podcast about Czechoslovakia: https://t.co/F1H6HBozfl
🌱🌱🌱Soviet Po.. @SovietPostcards
35K Followers 218 Following All things Soviet, esp. postcards, books, cartoons, design etc. Cute and whimsical! I run a vintage shop. I ship worldwide except AU, NZ, FI, DK, PL. Shop ⤵️
Grim Art @GrimArtGroup
75K Followers 26K Following #GrimArt - the beauty & value of the everyday, the ordinary & the overlooked; industrial landscapes, whippets & wastelands, red bricks & rust. #art #photography
Present & Correct @presentcorrect
109K Followers 742 Following New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our new shop: 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JX. Opening now. https://t.co/ndp1i4DMD2
Cold War Conversation.. @ColdWarPod
20K Followers 3K Following The award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost...subscribe for free. Produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of @RoyalHistSoc
USSR Pictures @PicturesUssr
136K Followers 159 Following Pictures and photographs from Soviet Union Soviet radio: https://t.co/jNohhM0xUN
Architektura PRL 💙.. @PRLarchi
13K Followers 13 Following Architektura i urbanistyka PRL, socrealizm, modernizm
Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat
43K Followers 2K Following 🇬🇧🇩🇪 Historian & journalist. Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. FRHistS. ✍️Washington Post, Spectator, UnHerd and others. 📚Blood and Iron.
ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco
150K Followers 89 Following Those were the days. 1880-1930s. Jugendstil, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Craftsmanship, originality, beauty. No politics here only applied arts.
Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2
66K Followers 2K Following Books about the dark, scary pop culture of the 70s and 80s. Vol One: https://t.co/ObZ9Xnuku7 Vol Two: https://t.co/IIjQCrzrWx [email protected]
Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement
128K Followers 3 Following learn how the bauhaus movement influenced design history with its emphasis on theory and practice as taught by the masters.
Propagandopolis @propagandopolis
138K Followers 963 Following Propaganda, political graphics, cartoons and more. DM submissions. Prints available on the website:
Digital Cosmonaut @iamkosmonaut
5K Followers 355 Following Tweets about #Urbex, #History and #Berlin | Father of twins 👨👧👦 DE/EN/HU | Find me on bluesky: https://t.co/LtMxX6IYc0
Spomenik Database @SpomenikDatabse
7K Followers 198 Following The Spomenik Database is an educational resource intended to catalog and explore the abstract monuments & modernist architecture of the former-Yugoslavia.
BerlinCompanion @kreuzberged
19K Followers 2K Following Berlin: things curious & forgotten | Berlin Companion Podcast & Books | Tagesspiegel: Aus der Zeit | VoiceMap audio-tours | Find me @berlincompanion.bsky.social
70s Sci-Fi Art 🛸 @70sscifi
216K Followers 207 Following By @AdamRRowe. Check out my new art book WORLDS BEYOND TIME: 400+ illustrations, 100+ artists, lots of jokes and facts. https://t.co/KfekD0cbzf
Cold War Records 🇺.. @ColdWarRecords
8K Followers 33 Following Follow for #Coldwar #History and storytelling from behind the Iron curtain. Features, articles, background, portraits, photos. Written by @JannikBayHansen
This Brutal House @BrutalHouse
73K Followers 2K Following Brutalism, Design, Music & Stuff That I Like Contact & Poster Sales — [email protected] Book — This Brutal World @phaidon
Leonid Trofimov @LeonidTrofimo12
580 Followers 574 Following History prof tweeting on Russia and the West: exploring the past, grieving about the present, with occasional forays into European literature, music, and art.
Alastair Kocho-Willia.. @akochowi
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Duncan Mackay @theDuncanMackay
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Xenta @Xenta777
43K Followers 19K Following The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. Albert Einstein
The Communists @CPGBML
21K Followers 7K Following 🇵🇸 “Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement”: https://t.co/SAtVjxzGLP . https://t.co/TM7NJkIIoi . https://t.co/0WgcaTF9qR
Soviet Child @child_soviet
4K Followers 116 Following Artists share their collection and love of media arts with an emphasis on the countries of the former Soviet Union. Jude Montague @judemontague.
Balkanist Magazine @Balkanist
30K Followers 3K Following Uncompromising coverage of the Balkans & everything to its East. Support us on Patreon! https://t.co/GHAFKPZ1LC
Sheldon K. Goodman @SheldonKGoodman
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🪦𝕮𝖊𝖒𝖊�.. @CemeteryClub
11K Followers 2K Following Cemeteries are museums of people! By public historian @SheldonKGoodman (he/him). ⚰️ 🏛💀 🏳️🌈
Steve Cvar @stevecvar
763 Followers 429 Following traveler, IT engineer, elder vegan, creative coder, architecture photography. IG: @stevecvar
Dan Herbert @DanHerb10
3K Followers 2K Following Me? Prehistory. Castles. Normans . New Model Army. Killing Joke. Folklore. Arsenal. Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS. Academic librarian by day. #MDANT
The Russian Review @russian_review
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No Context Russia @Russia_NC
282K Followers 2 Following Russian reality. No context. Российская действительность. Без контекста DM is open
Alexandra Oberländer.. @AlexOberlaender
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Ste Lingard @stelingard
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Looks Unfamiliar @looksunfamiliar
7K Followers 7K Following Looks Unfamiliar - a podcast looking at some of the things that you remember that nobody else ever seems to.
megzigzag @megzigzag
329 Followers 129 Following Art, film, politics and kittens. I believe art is created by looking and seeing something more. I try to show you how I see.
EastGermanyOnline �.. @DDROnline
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Sarah-Jayne Farrer @SJFTremoribus
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Polly Jones @drpollyjones
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sophia labadi @sophialabadi
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GeoBlogs @GeoBlogs
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11K Followers 215 Following A tribute to Berlin’s U-Bahn network on its 120th Anniversary. A project of @Berlin_Type and @Berlin_Texture. Not affiliated with BVG.
Jonny Whitlam Berlin .. @WhitlamsBerlin
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Kriegsspuren @kriegsspuren
4K Followers 108 Following Urban exploring (esp. WW2). Usually my photos (mostly iPhone). No historian but enthusiast. Just in case: bridgehead over at BlueSky (same handle).
Alex Eccleston Æ @AventuraObscura
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Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach
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@ex_utopia Yes. :) That one. I think it was a really good idea as a third one.
@ex_utopia If I am ever asked to make the missing Alien 3 movie with the Communist faction, I would spend 100s of hours looking through your work. Great photos!
@ex_utopia Brings a tear to my eye knowing you're there. Have a great time, and check on Shota Rustveli.
@ex_utopia All the best! Made a couple of attempts to contribute, not sure what the deal is
@ex_utopia I was never a Shakespeare type, but I detect a hint of irony in this here tweet 🤔
📍Kranhaus im Rheinauhafen, Köln #architecturephotography #urbanphotography #blackandwhitephotography #monochromephotography #lookup
Welcome and Thank You to new followers of my photos @sdexfilms @ex_utopia @kerrysmith_art @YZAVoku @naturestudio33 @MuseumHumanity 🙏☮️❤️
@ex_utopia as well, so all the internationalist aspect of Marxism-Leninism in the 1910s and 20s wasn't there anymore. I have read this about modern Russia as well. A lot of Soviet era rhetoric, but none of the internationalism that even motivated Gorbachev. It is just all zero sum nat.
@ex_utopia My impression of Albania that despite all the socialist rhetoric and decoration it was a nationalist ideology as the state was out of the Warsaw Pact, it was isolated internationally, and surrounded by Yugoslavia. In 1980s Communist Romania, nationalism became very important,
@ex_utopia How does the museum present the history of Albania from 1945 till 1990?
Летящата чиния на Бузлуджа продължава да жъне фенове
The #Buzludzha Memorial House in Bulgaria, as featured in video games. Red Matter (@Vertical_Robot, 2018) The Trap (@bul_games, 2020) Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) (user-made mod)
@ex_utopia My dad did his mandatory 2yr Soviet army service there. They specifically picked some people from 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹-either athletes or university graduates who knew English. Besides recording NATO maneuvers, they listened to the foreign music & played 🏀. Weren’t exactly Soviet patriots.
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