THE EAST OF WHO?
Does it still make sense to talk about post-Soviet space? With the podcasts Cemento (2019-2021) and Kult (2023), Eleonora Sacco and Angelo Zinna have attempted to deconstruct new and old imaginaries of the worlds beyond the Iron Curtain. Starting from a series of trips to the countries of the former USSR, the authors recount how […]
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE DDR: Five authors from eastern Germany between yesterday and today
It is still not easy to talk about what was the German Democratic Republic, even 34 years after the collapse of the regime that created it. For ardent supporters of Real Socialism, the demise of the GDR resembled the sinking of the mythical Atlantis. In contrast, for those who saw the Berlin Wall as a […]
