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Opinion&Analysis
TracesoftheSovietUnion,WojciechGórecki
titledLostTerritories:Sediment(LTA2),whichwasondisplayattheWarsaw
CentreforContemporaryArtandwhosecurator,PawełSzypulski,saidinapress
interview:uWeareshowingtheheritageofagrandutopia,which–asusuallyis
thecase–turnedintoanightmareandtheworldthatexistsaftertheawakening
fromthisnightmare.[Weshow]themarksthattheSovietUnionhasleftonthe
landscapeoftheindividualstates:woundsafteratomictestsoruraniummines,
movingofbordersandplacesofcurrentmilitaryconflicts”
.
Tus,theSputnikphotographscanhelpusunderstandpeoplewhonostalgi-
callysighwhentheytalkabouttheBrezhnevtimesandtheSovietutopia,evenif
youconsiderthemanaberration.Moreover,theywillprovokeustoasktheques-
tionwhethertheseulostterritories”areindeedlostforever,orarethey–atleast
symbolically–recoverable?Willthey,byanychance,everbecomeaupromised
land”?
TranslatedbyIwonaReichardt
WojciechGóreckiisaPolishanalyst,journalistandhistorianspecialisinginthepost-Sovietspace,
especiallytheNorthandSouthCaucasusandCentralAsia.Heistheauthorofseveralbooks,
includingAbkhazia(2013)andaSeniorFellowintheCentreforEasternStudies(OSW).
