I would ban Russian ships at Odessa.
That is a credible suggestion with extra symbolic implications due to that most famous communist propaganda film, THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. Eisenstein's film had a Czarist massacre occur on Odessa's famous Boulevard steps which lead from the city center down to the harbor. In history there was no masacre there during the 1905 revolution.
Here (on a follow-up post) is a photo of family friends in front of a government school in the eastern Ukraine. Note the battleship mosaic on the school which depicts the Aurora in 1917 during the Red October Revolution. Such holdovers from the Soviet era can be spotted many places. The students by tradition bring flowers, candy, wine, or some gift to their teachers during the first day of class.
That is a credible suggestion with extra symbolic implications due to that most famous communist propaganda film, THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. Eisenstein's film had a Czarist massacre occur on Odessa's famous Boulevard steps which lead from the city center down to the harbor. In history there was no masacre there during the 1905 revolution.
Here (on a follow-up post) is a photo of family friends in front of a government school in the eastern Ukraine. Note the battleship mosaic on the school which depicts the Aurora in 1917 during the Red October Revolution. Such holdovers from the Soviet era can be spotted many places. The students by tradition bring flowers, candy, wine, or some gift to their teachers during the first day of class.
That is a credible suggestion with extra symbolic implications due to that most famous communist propaganda film, THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. Eisenstein's film had a Czarist massacre occur on Odessa's famous Boulevard steps which lead from the city center down to the harbor. In history there was no masacre there during the 1905 revolution.
Here (on a follow-up post) is a photo of family friends in front of a government school in the eastern Ukraine. Note the battleship mosaic on the school which depicts the Aurora in 1917 during the Red October Revolution. Such holdovers from the Soviet era can be spotted many places. The students by tradition bring flowers, candy, wine, or some gift to their teachers during the first day of class.
That is a credible suggestion with extra symbolic implications due to that most famous communist propaganda film, THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. Eisenstein's film had a Czarist massacre occur on Odessa's famous Boulevard steps which lead from the city center down to the harbor. In history there was no masacre there during the 1905 revolution.
Here (on a follow-up post) is a photo of family friends in front of a government school in the eastern Ukraine. Note the battleship mosaic on the school which depicts the Aurora in 1917 during the Red October Revolution. Such holdovers from the Soviet era can be spotted many places. The students by tradition bring flowers, candy, wine, or some gift to their teachers during the first day of class.