Rêves et Souvenirs

Arden. She/her. Commie

[phobic-human]

Pakistani protestors burn a U.S. flag during a demonstration against the U.S. in Karachi, demonstrators condemned the United States for drone attacks on Pakistani territory, June 19, 2009.

(Photo credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP)

[colecciones]

Frida seated in her garden, 1943. Photo by Florence Arquin.

[smsomah]

Oualata, Mauritania. Scanned from the book Sahara; Jean-Loïc Le Quellec; 2004; photos by Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[phobic-human]

Chinese students burn an American flag as they march to the US embassy in Beijing, ptotestors expressed anger at the "tragic mistake" of NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, May 9, 1999.

(Photo credit: Stephen Shaver/AFP)

[kvetchlandia]

Mikhail Koltsov German Antifascist Volunteer Fighters of the Thälmann Battalion During the Spanish Civil War, Spain c.1938

[toiich]

Chocolat (1988), dir. Claire Denis

[cosmonautroger]

Diego Maradona, USSR, 1990

[lisboaumretrato]

Gérard Castello Lopes, Largo da Estrela vista do zimbório da Basílica, Lisboa, Portugal,1950

[smsomah]

Oualata, Mauritania. Scanned from the book Sahara; Jean-Loïc Le Quellec; 2004; photos by Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[posters-for-palestine]

Kanafani, Ghassan. He Is A Freedom Fighter. Circa 1969.

[m3tiendes]

[unteriors]

Tilba Street, Kincumber, New South Wales.

[loveridden1999]

[googlemapsgems]

Norilsk, Russia (courtesy of Google Maps via MapCrunch)

[circulating-eel]

10 Billion Dinara, 1993 Yugoslavia

Denomination: Reformed Dinar (demonetised)

Composition: paper

An iconic hyperinflation note featuring Nikola Tesla (Yugoslav expat), this was used during a time where inflation would hit an annual rate of 116,545,906,563,330%.

[shisasan]

I remember this from childhood, in the middle of the Yugoslav wars, before the bombing. The strange surrealism of money changing value daily while everyone around you still had to stand in line for limited bread and milk, sugar and cooking oil, and pretend the world was not coming apart. People were surviving through help networks, barter, smuggling, and old wartime recipes. Hyperinflation was not an abstract economic term. It was adults rushing to spend salaries before they lost value, pensions turning into paper, money with impossible numbers, and stories like one pensioner receiving 100 billion dinars, enough to pay the bills and buy milk and bread, and not enough for much else.

It was only one chapter in the collapse, and an overture to the horrors of war that would follow.

[dalicoco]

[veryfilthyshit]

agreed.

[istherewifiinhell]

[ID: a ball cap that says in english and chinese:

Don't rush to work / Don't be late for lunch 上班别急 / 午饭可别迟到了

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