The Blog From The Bog; Disjointed rants and ravings of a fluently foul mouthed, ex pat living in Co. Leitrim, here giving full rein to his own quirkiness. The character of " Ditch Shitter " having been forged, over years, on 'The Hunting Life' forum proved so strangely popular with enough people there, before I left, that their now constant drip of " Long time, no see; What ye up to? " notes has led me to answer them all, here.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Some Extremely Powerful Pictures .....
If ye know absolutely anything at all about The Eastern Front / Great Patriotic War of Independence, kind of depending on which side ye were, ye'll know it was no fucking picnic for anyone involved.
Then again; Is it me? Is it what we're exposed to as we're growing up? Or do we tend to think of German soldiers in the snow, when ever we evoke an image of " The Eastern Front " ? See? We even, quite automatically and unconsciously refer to it as the Germans did. Wouldn't it have been the Western Front, to the Russians?
What ever. Here's how some perfectly exemplary Russian Artists have portrayed it. From their own sides point of view: Soviet War Paintings.
This stuff's The Shit!
Excellent paintings on there
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