Fallen Monuments, Then and Now
The USSR’s fallen monuments and failed reckoning offer lessons for our own near future.
The USSR’s fallen monuments and failed reckoning offer lessons for our own near future.
The Soviet Union crapped out 20 years ago. Who even remembers?
I never thought I’d see Moscow again, although I dreamed of it for fourteen years. I boarded a teeming Aeroflot flight in late summer 2005, as Katrina’s receding waters revealed, inch by inch, the erasure of New Orleans as I once knew it. Mourning for that blighted, intoxicating city, I rushed towards another place I…