Ukraine and (some of) its capitals pt 2

A documentary journey through Ukraine and some of its past capitals: Kyivan rus' Kiev/Kyiv, austro-hungarian-polish Galicia capital Lwow/Lviv, Small-russia "capital" Odessa, crimean tatar capitals Chufut-Kale and Bakhchisaraj, austro-hungarian-romanian Bukovina capital Chernovtsy/Cernauti, armenian-jewish-polish Kamenets, and hungarian Transcarpatian capital for a day - Uzhgorod.
Photos are (mostly) colour negative, a couple by Sara Månsson, the rest by Glenn Möllergren, shot between 2000 and 2009. Glenn Möllergren also provides explanatory narration (in english) and satellite-image to ease up the location of the places. The general idea is to inspire visitors to travel to Ukraine and is a completely private intitative by Glenn Möllergren, and has nothing to do with official tourist organisations.
The slideshow was first displayed at Karlshamns photo-club in january 2009, at "Flottans män".

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News & Politics

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• Ukraine
• Lviv
• Kyiv
• Bakhchisaraj
• Chufut-Kale
• Odessa
• Chernovtsy
• armenians
• jews
• polish
• photo
• photograph
• satellite
• medieval
• tourism
• travel

[ADmitriyua]

Почему все так мрачтно? бред...

[glennmollergren]

@ADmitriyua. Eto vopros o vkuse. Mne nravitsa tak, drugomu po raznamu. Esli khotite, pozjalujsta sdelat' slideshow ob Ukraine bolshe vesolyj.

[glennmollergren]

"I hate Russia and USA.Now I hate also Sweden. "

That's the first thing you wrote. If you don't hate all these nations, fine.

I agree - Warszawa isn't the prettiest place. I guess mr Hitler is to blame - at least he was the one commanding it to be destroyed. Still, you're free to go to Lwow or any other beautiful place, you don't have to "claim" every piece of earth that historically is connected to your passport. The only result of this kind of thinking will be more wars.

[glennmollergren]

Well, no one has had the idea Sweden has anything to do with Lwow...

[glennmollergren]

Oh... Don't blame the swedes, I'm pretty un-Swedish. Anyway it's really constructive to go hating entire nations because of one guy, isn't it?

After that ... would you mind telling me what's so terrible? How has your life been ruined?

[glennmollergren]

And, most of all: if we are to save humanity from more Holocausts and wars - national claims have to rest on history's bookshelf.

I regularly meet hungarians in Transylvania "claiming" the land and this conflict has harvested lives also after 1945.

If swedish land was concerned, I'd be happy to give up every piece of it, especially if I was still allowed to visit it.