#belorussia

[amare-habeo]

Ossip Zadkine (Bielorussian/French, 1888-1967)

Young Woman with Bird, N/D

Oil on canvas

[songs-of-the-east]

Belarusian Man and Woman with a Zvizda, a Symbol of Kaliada Rituals During Christmas Season

[zvyozdochka]

Belarusian women, 1947 (photo by Vassily Egorov)

[djwezg]

Review: Memoirs - by Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential and critical figures of the twentieth century. When I was growing up in the 1980s he was part os a set of international world leaders that seemingly had much more influence over people than the political leaders of today. Gorbachev was the last leader of he Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. He presided over the final years of the Cold War…

Review: Memoirs - by Mikhail Gorbachev

[swedebeast]

Time to share some politically charges history (or is it historically charged politics?) to give a pretty bite-sized and good summary of, well. What's on the tin. Belorussian, Russia, and Ukraine are three different countries.

[larchenkov]

Minsk

[bobemajses]

Jews in Lida, Belarus, 1920s

[dr-marx]