Kiev, Architectural Landmarks and Art Museums Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1987 Printed and bound in the USSR http://www.alansondheim.org/Kiev1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Kiev2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Kiev3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Kiev4.jpg P. 16: "In 1934, Kiev became the capital of the Soviet Ukraine, which triggered a period of intensive construction." "The realization of these plans was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War (1941--45). Immeasurable destruction was caused to Kiev by the Nazi occupation forces. More than 195 thousand people, inhabitants of Kiev and Soviet Army soldiers and officers, were either brutally murdered at Baby Yar or tortured in the concentration camps at Darnitsa and Syrets." Note: Not a mention of the Jews. The same occurs in the entry on Darnitsa. Kiev is transformed into a heroic Soviet. For example p. 17: "In 1945, construction began on another city thoroughfare, the Druzhby Narodov (International Boulevard)" ... On the same page there is also mention of the "Park of Eternal Glory." The map on pp. 50-51 includes "The Museum of Russian Art," "Monument of Lenin," "Monument to the October Revolution," "October Palace of Culture," "Branch of the Central Lenin Museum," and "Monument dedicated to the reunion of Russia and the Ukraine." On p. 63, photograph of "Statue of Lenin." On p. 66, photograph of the enormous "October Revolution Square." On p. 71, photograph of an enormous "Monument dedicated to the reunion of Russia and the Ukraine." On p. 79, map including "Monument to the Insurgent Arsenal Workers." On p. 80, "a monument to Grigory Petrovsky (1878-1958), A Soviet statesman," from 1970. This is also enormous. On p. 82, a photograph of the "Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR and the Mariinsky Palace." Again enormous. In a central park, there is the "monument to the hero of the Great Patriotic War, liberator of Kiev, The Hero of the Soviet Union, General Nikolai Vatutin." Yes, it's enormous. P. 86, there's the "Palace of Young Pioneers and Schoolchildren." P. 87, "A straight avenue bordered by pollarded hornbeams leads to the graves of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War." An enormous enormous statue seems to sit atop the "Ukrainian Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)," p. 116. On page 135, a photograph of the large "Memorial to Soviet Citizens, soldiers, and officers, prisoners of war, brutally killed by the Nazis at Baby Yar in 1941-1943. On pp. 136-137, a photograph of the "Moscow Bridge." P. 145, "Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the Ukrainian SSR." On p. 153, "A second monument - two figures of Soviet Army soldiers cast in bronze, not broken in the face of death - was placed in the square of the Darnitsa Railway Station in 1970." There's Leo Tolstoy Street, Lenin Street, Engels Street. The Soviet architecture is monumental, blank, in a hyperbolic or brutalist style. It seems to be everywhere. Again, apparently no Jews died at Babi Yar (the spelling varies in the book), even though at least 33,771 were buried there. No Jews lived in Kiev. No Jews lived anywhere. (N.B. spelling varies from sources.) __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Kiev, Architectural Landmarks and Art Museums
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Thu, 07 Apr 2022 13:38:14 -0700
