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Hi, and welcome to my blog.  I started this when I was traveling round Europe in 2008 to keep the friends and family back home up to date on how my journey was progressing, and how my art work was going as I had an exhibition on my travels.  Unfortunately I'm not the best when it comes to regularly updating my web pages... but I am trying to get a little better at it.

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

More (near) studio action - surreal Russian Market time

I went to the Russian Market (Balti Jaam).  It's a very odd place.  Lots of old Soviet occupation memorabilia; old Russian money, badges with the hammer & sickle logo, furry hats and busts of Lenin and plaques featuring Stalin.



Controversially they also have old WW2 matchbooks for sale, some of which sport rather fetching propaganda imagery of Hitler or his idolised Arian race girl or boy waving a flag with the swastika on it, and rings featuring the swastika.  It's very odd to see this sort of thing for sale, but I guess the Nazis flooded occupied countries with these sorts of 'supporter' propaganda.  It's a little disturbing really to see these sorts of thing existing in daily life, to be surrounded by it and people selling it as part of their stock.


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