brot und barrikade

The Laughing Man - Confessions of a Murderer (GDR, 1966) Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk. Müller fought in Congo’s civil war in the 1960s, and the more Pernod he imbibes, the more fascinating this interview becomes. He asserts that blacks are no better than animals and shares his dream of enlisting in the U.S. Army to fight communism in Vietnam and beyond. He flaunts his military paraphernalia, including the Iron Cross he was awarded in Germany in 1945, and proceeds to deny his earlier statements about civil killings, the ethics of war, and the defense of Western libertarian values. This documentary tour-de-force is interspersed with pictures of Müller and his comrades proudly posing with severed skulls, and it touches on other Nazis who are active in Africa as well as American world dominance.

This is supposed to be my metro oc and the Komsomolskaya station, but anyway.

Cosmonaut suit

Soviet Zenit 3M camera, photo by TASS (via)

"Warsaw Pact" - Painting by Yuri Ryazanov and Alexander Sytov, 1985

Don’t repost!!

"Solidarity with the Palestinian people" (1982) - A postage stamp from my grandfather's stamp collection.

Referring to my grandfather as a stamp collector is probably not quite right. I think he was more so just a East Germany fanboy seeing as 5 of his 6 stamp albums are filled with only GDR stamps.

Vladimir Komarov explaining something to Yuri Gagarin (late 1960s)

Viktor Grigorievich Zalitko, 1970

Edward Gorey's wonderfully odd Christmas illustration

Greetings from East Germany (Cold War era postcard)

Chemnitz

Probably not the best decision made by this graphic designer.

are you kidding bro

Boris Vitomsky, 1957.