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  • 'Love Anarchy' graffiti on a wall on a wall on the Rio de San Margherita canal in Dorsoduro, a district of Venice, Italy. The writing is on bare plaster behind which we see brick of unknown date or era. Anarchist ideology can be seen in various locations around Venice though more common in the more residential district like Dorsoduro and Castello.
    venice_110-23-07-2015_1.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show an instruction mural for guarding prison camps seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier standing at the barbed wire of a generic Gulag holding his AK-47 weapon and dressed in fur hat and uniform from that era. Perhaps those training here were eventually to guard political prisoners though it is a reminder of a fallen ideology. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer.
    russian_wustrow03-16-06_1990.jpg
  • Graffiti sprayed on a rendered brick wall proclaims that a higher authority ‘Can’t evict our ideas’. This message of resistance by the underdogs of a moral majority appears on a part of wasteland in the Yorkshire city of Bradford, where the residents of an estate near the city centre have been forcibly removed to make space for a new development. Before their migration, the anonymous, downtrodden people were desperate enough to write this piece of anarchical philosophy that might be seen as a metaphor for a class war against the establishment by The People; the working classes otherwise known in Marxist ideology, as the Proletariat – a kind of thought from the (Orwellian) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.
    derelict_bradford05-08-05-2009_1.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as reminders of Soviet discipline, the picture shows a soldier marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow02-16-06_1990.jpg
  • On the edge of an old Soviet parade ground, peeling murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques seen in this army boot camp in the former East German peninsular called Halbinsel Wustrow near Rostock. For the benefit of recruits or as a reminder of Soviet discipline, the picture shows soldiers marching in that unmistakable goose-stepping style reminiscent of the Nazi era, with high forward kicks and a strenuous arm movement to the chest as seen in iconic May Day celebrations in Red Square. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housed civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology
    russian_wustrow01-16-06_1990.jpg
  • British Prime Minister, John Major and his political predecessor, Margaret Thatcher, adorn the covers of their respective biographies on sale in the Conservative partys Central Office bookshop on 11th March 1992. Thatcher served as PM from 1979 to 1990 and Major, from 1990 to 1997.
    margaret_thatcher06-11-03-1992.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers shout at passing motorists outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-15-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers argue outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-09-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the faces of Karl Marx and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-04-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a lady shovels East German Lignite coal briketts left outside her home, on 1st June 1990, in Aue, Saxony, eastern Germany former DDR. The coal was delivered as Briketts and was either Lignite or Braunkohle, imported from either Poland or northern Czech Republic.
    DDR_coal_lady-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state German Democratic Republic, a brown coal delivery man stops to shovel his polluting fossil fuel into local cellars, on 15th June 1990, in Aue, Saxony. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008.
    GDR_coleman-15-06-1990.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather on the plinth below Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-31-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face Soviet leader Lenin on a banner in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-07-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state the German Democratic Republic, a Trabant is worked on at the company factory, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany. The East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke was at Zwickau in Saxony. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time.
    GDR_trabant02-15-06-1990.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-29-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers shout at passing motorists outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-13-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, pro-EU Remainers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-04-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars come off the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany former DDR. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Copies of former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatchers memoirs, ready for sale in a Costco warehouse around June 1993 in London England. The Downing Street Years covered Thatchers premiership from 1979 to 1990 before she was deposed after a leadership challenge. The book was accompanied by a four-part BBC television series of the same name.
    margaret_thatcher07-01-06-1992.jpg
  • A new Trabant car shell is lifted by forklift from a truck at the East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony.  A worker carefully manoeuvres the unfinished bodywork into a crate where other vehicles await completion on the production line. The Trabant was the most common vehicle in East Germany - Like the Beetle in the West, its Peoples' Car with a 595 cc, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. It had space for four, was compact, light and durable with its distinctive body shape constructed from Duroplast panels attached to a galvanized steel shell. It was in production without any significant changes for about 34 years, becoming a symbol for the cheap, cheerful and polluting possessions for Communist Europeans. When the Berlin Wall eventually fell, Trabants coughed and spluttered onto West German roads for the first time
    DDR_travel03-06_1990_1.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, pro-EU Remainers protest to passing motorists outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-51-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-36-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-30-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-24-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-02-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face Soviet leader Lenin on a banner in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-08-01-05-2018.jpg
  • The outer wall and watchtower on Genzlerstrasse of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members.Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy.
    hohenschonhausen_stasi_prison13-05-0...jpg
  • On a plyboard hoarding that has sealed up a Restaurant in Leicester Square, some graffiti suggests that the Coronavirus pandemic is a conspiracy reminiscent of George Orwell's cult dystopian work, '1984', on 29th September 2020, in London, Westminster, England.
    closed_pub01-29-09-2020.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers protest outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-48-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers protest outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-42-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers protest outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-44-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers argue outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-33-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers argue outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-06-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-18-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Pamphlets and literature on a stall of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-12-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-15-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the faces of Karl Marx and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-05-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a Trabant car sits wrecked on the corner of Mollstrasse and Hans-Beimler-Strasse in east Berlin former DDR, on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last Trabant cars await buyers outside the factory production line, on 1st June 1990, in Zwickau, eastern Germany former DDR. The DDR-produced Trabant suffered poor performance, but its smoky two-stroke engine regarded with affection as a symbol of the more positive sides of East Germany. Many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall. It was in production without any significant change for nearly 30 years. The name Trabant means fellow traveler in German.
    DDR_trabant-01-06-1990_2.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an elderly lady is handed her change after buying some cauliflowers at a market stall, on 1st June 1990, in Leipzig, eastern Germany former DDR.
    DDR_market_stall-01-06-1990.jpg
  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit – Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
    DDR_travel05-06_1990_1.jpg
  • A coal delivery man deposits chunks of brown coal into the cellar via a conveyor belt for an elderly lady who stands outside in the bitter cold wearing only a housecoat this grim day. Her slippers can be seen standing among fallen briquettes that have dropped on to the wet cobbled street as the man oversees the delivery from a truck that has backed on to the pavement near a junction. A passing Trabant car rattles up the hill past a mother who pauses to ensure a safe crossing for her baby. Aue is a mining town in the Ore Mountains known for its copper, titanium, and kaolinite. The town was a machine-building and cutlery manufacturing centre in the East German era with a population of roughly 18,000 inhabitants. It was the administrative seat of the former district of Aue-Schwarzenberg in Saxony and part of the Erzgebirgskreis since August 2008..
    DDR_travel04-06_1990_1.jpg
  • Displayed on a table at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, peaked caps of the former East German (DDR in German) border police are on sale in orderly rows for the sake of tourists to this German city. The border troops of the German Democratic Republic (Grenztruppen), were a military force of the GDR and the primary force guarding the Berlin Wall and the border between East and West Germany. The Border Troops numbered at their peak approximately 47,000 troops and other than the Soviet Union, no other Warsaw Pact country had such a large border guard force. In all, 1,065 persons were killed along the GDR's frontiers and coastline, often by the border guards. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
    DDR_travel02-06_1990_1.jpg
  • Months after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the communist GDR state the German Democratic Republic, the wreckage of a Trabant car still remains, on 15th June 1990, in Berlin, Eastern Germany.
    GDR_trabant01-15-06-1990.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers protest outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-54-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, pro-EU Remainers protest to passing motorists outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-49-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, pro-EU Remainers protest to passing motorists outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-50-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-38-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-40-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-34-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, eminent pro-EU Remainer campaigner Steve Bray protests outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-22-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, eminent pro-EU Remainer campaigner Steve Bray protests outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-21-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-18-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, both pro-EU Remainers and Brexiteers argue outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for Mays Premiership and the UKs Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-10-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers shout at passing motorists outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-12-04-12-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to sell her Brexit deal ahead of five days of debate and eventual vote in parliament, Brexiteers protest their ideals outside the House of Commons, on 4th December 2018, in London, England. This week will be a vital step for May's Premiership and the UK's Brexit status.
    brexit_protest-01-04-12-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather on the plinth below Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-32-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Pamphlets and literature on a stall of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-27-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Members of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather with the face of Soviet leader Josef Stalin on banners in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-22-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Pamphlets and literature on a stall of the Communist Party of Great Britain gather in Trafalgar Square during the traditional May Day celebrations in the capital, on 1st May 2018, in London, England.
    may_day_communists-09-01-05-2018.jpg
  • Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young man sells memorabilia and merchandise from the former DDR DGR at a market stall near the Brandenburg Gate, on 1st June 1990, in Berlin, Germany.
    selling_DDR-01-06-1990.jpg
  • Detail of a rusty Wartburg 312 car standing at the kerbside in an eastern Berlin district. A sticker with the letters DDR as the German Democratic Republic (DDR in German and GDR in English) as East Germany was called during the Cold War. Any car was a highly-prized possession when ownership of luxury goods like vehicles aroused suspicion for other than Communist Party officials. This car may have been someone of rank or influence. The GDR was a self-declared socialist state, referred to in the West as a "communist state" in the Soviet Sector of occupied Germany created after the second world war and partitioned when DDR leaders built the Berlin Wall that eventually segregated Germany and Europe. The East Germany state existed from 7 October 1949 until 3 October 1990 and was a potent symbol of a divided Europe during the Cold War.
    DDR_travel01-06_1990_1.jpg
  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the ‘Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government’, the Workers’ Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary’s transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
    communist_statue-13-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Under the watchful eyes of rowdy relatives and friends, Coca Dai expresses his love for his bride, Juan Juan, and kisses her at her home in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai034.jpg
  • Pop Ideology sign in Shangri-La, the after-hours epicentre of the Glastonbury Festival 2013. The theme for 2013 is Afterlife with the visiters choice between heavan and hell. Glastonbury is the world's biggest greenfield festival with nearly 200,000  visiters camping in the dairy farm of Michael Evis in Somerset, UK.<br />
The first festival was in 1970 and was influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field.
    183ShangriLa_1_1.jpg
  • An Islamic extremist protests opposite the London Libyan embassy and demand Shariah law after the Gaddafi uprising. Holding up his placards that ask for Allah’s Holy law and a Shariah way of life for Libya and that Democracy is the path to Hellfire, the young British radical stands behind barriers near Hyde Park Corner denouncing Colonel Gaddafi and for their views and ideology to become the norm for the north African country.
    libyan_protests03-25-02-2011.jpg
  • A Loyalist wall and rubbish-strewn wasteground shows the dereliction of 1990s Belfast, northern Ireland. Rubbish and missing brickwork tell us of a city a decade after the Troubles when protestant fought catholic causes, a clash of religion and ideology with poor investment by a London-based government.
    belfast_dereliction-26-09-1996_1.jpg
  • Juan Juan stands with her step father while waiting to take the walk down the aisle during her wedding ceremony to Coca Dai at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai065.jpg
  • Coca Dai talks with his priest to make the final preparations before his wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai059.jpg
  • Sinister silhouettes in an underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti. The tunnel is located near Waterloo mainline station and the concrete bunker-like place has become a favourite landscape for dedicated street artists who are free to cover the walls and pavements (sidewalks) with expressions of their urban artistic ideology and political protest. In daytime, this environment is not as intimidating as it appears and Londoners pass through as a shortcut beneath an otherwise complex route of roadways and railway tracks above. There are also periodic festivals of street art attracting the best of artists including the secretive Banksy.
    graffiti_tunnel02-22-06-2012_1.jpg
  • Islamic extremists protest opposite the London Libyan embassy and demand Shariah law after the Gaddafi uprising. Holding up their placards that ask for Shariah law for Libya and that Democracy is the path to Hellfire, the young British radicals stand behind barriers near Hyde Park Corner denouncing Colonel Gaddafi and for their views and ideology to become the way of life for the north African country.
    libyan_protests01-25-02-2011.jpg
  • Coca and Juan Juan makes final preparations before their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai056.jpg
  • Old Soviet parade ground murals show the physical style of Russian marching techniques in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_3.jpg
  • Coca Dai (right)  sits in his limousine with his best man on his way to pick up his bride in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai013.jpg
  • Whitehall November 28th Protest organised by Stop the War against the proposed bombing of Syria. A young man holds a home-made sign saying 'Bombing doesn't kill an ideology, it feeds it', and a young woman next to him has a home-made sign saying 'War won't work'.
    stop_5304_1.jpg
  • Masked protesters of western leaders Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher kiss at a 1986 demonstration by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) against the hosting by the UK of US nuclear cruise missiles on British soil. Amid a chaotic scene of protest and intimidating police presence, the two unidentified people touch lips outside the US embassy (background) in London’s Grosvenor Square. In the Cold War era, both world leaders Reagan and Thatcher symbolised the special relationship between the US and the UK, who shared a common ideology for conquering the threats of Communist domination. Their answer was for the proliferation of atomic arsenals in order to maintain world stability and public protest was ever-present outside US interests and especially at the many RAF air bases that were leased to the US Air Force from where bombers flew.
    cnd_thatcher-19-04-1986_1.jpg
  • Coca Dai and Juan Juan sign a document during their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai098.jpg
  • Coca Dai and Juan Juan pray during their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai094.jpg
  • Coca Dai and Juan Juan take their wedding vows during their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai082.jpg
  • Juan Juan, in the arms of her step father, walks down the aisle during her wedding ceremony to Coca Dai at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai069.jpg
  • Coca Dai stands in attendance during his wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai062.jpg
  • Coca and Juan Juan makes final preparations before their wedding ceremony at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai055.jpg
  • Old Soviet parade ground illustrations show self-defence positions for Russian soldiers in the former Russian army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_2.jpg
  • Islamic extremists protest opposite the London Libyan embassy and demand Shariah law after the Gaddafi uprising. Holding up their placards that ask for Shariah law for Libya and that Democracy is the path to Hellfire, the young British radicals stand behind barriers near Hyde Park Corner denouncing Colonel Gaddafi and for their views and ideology to become the way of life for the north African country.
    libyan_protests09-25-02-2011.jpg
  • Islamic extremists protest opposite the London Libyan embassy and demand Shariah law after the Gaddafi uprising. Holding up their placards that ask for Shariah law for Libya and that Democracy is the path to Hellfire, the young British radicals stand behind barriers near Hyde Park Corner denouncing Colonel Gaddafi and for their views and ideology to become the way of life for the north African country.
    libyan_protests05-25-02-2011.jpg
  • Sinister silhouettes in an underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti. The tunnel is located near Waterloo mainline station and the concrete bunker-like place has become a favourite landscape for dedicated street artists who are free to cover the walls and pavements (sidewalks) with expressions of their urban artistic ideology and political protest. In daytime, this environment is not as intimidating as it appears and Londoners pass through as a shortcut beneath an otherwise complex route of roadways and railway tracks above. There are also periodic festivals of street art attracting the best of artists including the secretive Banksy.
    graffiti_tunnel05-22-06-2012_1.jpg
  • Choir members sing during a wedding ceremonies at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai088.jpg
  • A man directs the choir members during a wedding ceremonies at the Xujiahui Catholic Church in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.  A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai086.jpg
  • Juan Juan, the bride to be, leaves her home accompanied by the maid of honor on her way to the church to be married to Coca Dai in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai043.jpg
  • Under the watchful eyes of rowdy relatives and friends, Coca Dai expresses his love for his bride, Juan Juan, and kisses her at her home in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai033.jpg
  • Coca Dai meets the florist and chauffeur before picking up his bride in a rented Mercedes Benz in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009.   A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai004.jpg
  • A deserted landscape of a street and overgrown paths and empty housing in the former Russian Soviet army camp in occupied East Germany ex-GDR/DDR, on 16th June 19990, on Halb Insel Wustrow, near Rostock, Germany. Wustrow was once a WW2 German anti-aircraft artillery position then housing civilian refugees before the eventual Soviet occupation of the former DDR during the Cold War, up until 1990 and the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. The camp was ransacked and all its assets stripped before its desertion that summer and is a reminder of a fallen ideology.
    soviet_village-16-06-1990_1.jpg
  • Pop Ideology sign in Shangri-La, the after-hours epicentre of the Glastonbury Festival 2013. The theme for 2013 is Afterlife with the visiters choice between heavan and hell. Glastonbury is the world's biggest greenfield festival with nearly 200,000  visiters camping in the dairy farm of Michael Evis in Somerset, UK.<br />
The first festival was in 1970 and was influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field.
    184ShangriLa_1.jpg
  • Juan Juan, a bride to be, rest on a rose patterned bed sheet in her wedding gown before going to the church to be married to Coca Dai at her home in Shanghai, China on 23 May 2009. A hip street artist and a recent Catholic convert, Mr. Dai is one of many young Chinese embracing religion, perhaps to fill the lack of belief and ideology in an authoritarian communist China that embraces the most extreme form of capitalism in practice. The Chinese government and the Vatican have a long history of simmering mutual distrust and suspicion, as two parties compete for the control of the Chinese Catholic church, with some 15 million and growing number of faithfuls.  Overall Christians now number over 110 million in China, which makes it the third largest Christian nation in the world.
    QS090523Shanghai037.jpg
  • Workers craft a statue of Mao Zedong out of resin at the workshop of a "Red" memorabilia collector and manufacturer, near Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China on 12 August 2009.  The workers were once electricians.The village of Shaoshan, in rural Hunan Province, is tiny in size but big in name. It was the childhood home for Mao Zedong, the controversial revolutionary who came from obscurity but eventually defied all odds conquered China in the name of communism. Now his home, a sacred place among China's official propaganda, is in reality a microcosm of the country itself: part commercialism, part superstition, with a dash of communist ideological flavor.
    QS090812Shaoshan108.jpg
  • Visitors outside of  Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China on 12 August 2009.  The village of Shaoshan, in rural Hunan Province, is tiny in size but big in name. It was the childhood home for Mao Zedong, the controversial revolutionary who came from obscurity but eventually defied all odds conquered China in the name of communism. Now his home, a sacred place among China's official propaganda, is in reality a microcosm of the country itself: part commercialism, part superstition, with a dash of communist ideological flavor.
    QS090812Shaoshan024.jpg
  • Children play in a desolate street in the town of Nova Huta. Amid the filthy walls of their tenement building home and of the grim, car less street beyond, two older children play in their doorway while younger friends peer from around a corner. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen at the end of the street. After the war, Stalin decided to build an ideological communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nova Huta. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
    poland_poverty-20-06-1990.jpg
  • Children play in a desolate street in the town of Nova Huta. Amid the filthy walls of their tenement building home and of the grim, car less street beyond, two older children play in their doorway while younger friends peer from around a corner. It is horribly depressing and unhealthy place to grow up and these children are pale and yet seem happy, with smiles on their faces. The famous steel works can be seen st the end of the street. After the war, Stalin decided to build an ideological communist fantasy just outside Krakow: a model town and immense steelworks of the future. The steelworks was named after Lenin and the town would be called Nova Huta. At its peak, 27,000 people worked at the Lenin Steelworks. But Solidarity grew strong forcing strikes over pay and recognition over their union. Today, it is an economic and ecological disaster area.
    misc_poland06-06-09-2007.jpg
  • A man rides past unfinished statues of Mao Zedong at the workshop of a "Red" memorabilia collector and manufacturer, near Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China on 12 August 2009. The village of Shaoshan, in rural Hunan Province, is tiny in size but big in name. It was the childhood home for Mao Zedong, the controversial revolutionary who came from obscurity but eventually defied all odds conquered China in the name of communism. Now his home, a sacred place among China's official propaganda, is in reality a microcosm of the country itself: part commercialism, part superstition, with a dash of communist ideological flavor.
    QS090812Shaoshan131.jpg
  • A puppy sits next to a statue of Mao Zedong at the home of a "Red" memorabilia collector and manufacturer, near Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China on 12 August 2009.  The village of Shaoshan, in rural Hunan Province, is tiny in size but big in name. It was the childhood home for Mao Zedong, the controversial revolutionary who came from obscurity but eventually defied all odds conquered China in the name of communism. Now his home, a sacred place among China's official propaganda, is in reality a microcosm of the country itself: part commercialism, part superstition, with a dash of communist ideological flavor.
    QS090812Shaoshan099.jpg
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