The Brest Fortress complex commemorates the heroic defence of the Soviet garrison against the German invasion of June 1941. I also ambled through the Fortress Museum, which has some displays of the 19th c. fortress, and even a very short display on the 1939 Polish defence, but which is naturally focused on the 1941 defence, […]
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Brest Fortress, Belarus
December 26, 2010
Post-Election Minsk
December 22, 2010
I got into Minsk on December 21st 2010 (Tuesday), coming in from Smolensk. I’d seen news reports in Russia of large scale protests and large scale arrests in Minsk on Sunday, after opposition supporters decided to express their skepticism of Mr Lukashenko’s reported 80% share of the vote in the Belarus presidential elections. I hadn’t […]
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