Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day

Re:Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day by pvg on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @02:42AM (#1570350)

http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/

Original source, also lists the locations.

There are also places in a number of these cities where limited amounts of the ww2 damage are left un-repaired, as a memorial and a live version of these composites.

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Re:Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day by konve on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @07:38AM (#1570793)

Thank you.

This one just... froze me. http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/000029eg/

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Re:Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day by naa42 on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @08:27AM (#1570882)

The photographer has started with the photographs of Saint-Petersburg/Leningrad, where he lives. The siege of Leningrad [1] was one of the most atrocious events of the WWII in Europe.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Blockade

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Re:Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day by xyzzyb on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @01:32PM (#1571949)

I find this one to be most unsettling: http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0002922z/

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Re:Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day by torpor on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @05:52AM (#1570656)

I live in Vienna, and am constantly on the lookout for signs of the old wars. Its a very sobering experience to walk down some street and then realize later that was the site of intense street fighting and massacre.

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Re:Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day by pvg on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @09:10AM (#1570970)

There are, I believe, buildings in Vienna where the bullet holes are left unplastered and the cyrillic graffiti left by Soviet soldiers can still be read. At least, there were when I lived there a decade or so ago.

And, of course, there is this

http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0005twp2

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Re:Ghost of WWII: 1940's meticulously overlaid on modern day by ahoyhere on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @09:26AM (#1571005)

Yes, there are a few. The most recent one I saw was in the 5th district, by the Schlossquadrat, on a backstreet. It had a plaque.

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