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Russia
Belarus December 2010
European Union
Minsk
Pinsk
Brest
Minsk
Minsk Lenin (1)
Minsk Lenin (2)
KGB Headquarters
KGB Headquarters
KGB Headquarters door
Felix Dzerzhinsky Bust
Lenin's henchman, founder of the Cheka.
KGH Monument (??)
Victory Obelisk
Victory Obelisk Plaque
Stalin has been erased.
Soviet Apartment Block
Isle of Tears (Afghan War Memorial)
Isle of Tears Chapel
Afghan War Memorial
Oktybrskaya square
Traditional protest site, currently an ice rink.
WWII Museum introductory exhbit
(Only cardboard, but quite striking.)
Cathedral of SS Peter & Paul (1613)
Pinsk
Pinsk Lenin
Rather grumpy & ill-formed.
Old Jesuit College (1648)
St Francis Church & Monastery (1730)
St Francis Church (1730)
St Francis Church Interior
Prayerbooks & Signage in Polish
Fronzen Pina River
Ice Fishermen
Memorial from the River Flotilla
"1944-1964"
WWII Memorial
Afghan War memorial
With names,ranks, dates of the dead.
Unhappy Visitors
Kirov Bust
What's he doing in Pinsk???
(Modern) Local Church
Brest
Approaching Brest Fortress
Memorial to a defender
Fortress Entrance
With martial music playing.
From inside the Fortess
Watchful Tanks
Memorial Complex
"Thirst"
Local teenage honour guard
Eternal Flame
Not a happy figure.
Fortress Brest's Medals
Fortess Gate
Brest Lenin (1)
Brest Lenin (2)
St Simon Orthodox Cathedral
St Nikolai church
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