Unconditional Surrender Museum

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Berlin is a city of museums.
In the summer of 1994, the Unconditional Surrender Museum closed and tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers left Berlin. Soon after, an exhibition called "Russians in Berlin" was launched, which included a long piece of paper with the name of every Berlin street destroyed by the Russians.
At the Berlin Zoo, next to the pool where the live walrus lives, there is an unusual exhibition showing all the items found in the stomach of the walrus Roland: lighters, baby shoes, children's water guns, beer openers, plastic cars...
Berlin's flea markets are open museums, showcasing everyday life, past and present, where different eras and ideologies are reconciled, each item costing no more than a few marks. Surviving uniforms and epaulettes are harmoniously stacked, their owners long dead, their only enemies moths. People of all origins come to trade: Pakistanis, Turks, Poles, Roma, former Yugoslavs, Germans, Russians, Vietnamese, Kurds, Ukrainians... The bygone days, the rubbish of time, are sold here as souvenirs: photo albums from other people's homes, broken watches, broken vases...
The story of a life shattered can only be told bit by bit. Things outlast people. Photo albums outlive their owners. Long lives are hidden in old coats, in meaningless objects. When a country disappears, so does its collective memory. When the objects around us disappear, so do the memories of our daily lives. But I remember everything. The first can of Yugoslav laundry detergent. The first Yugoslav TV series. Gavrilovic's meat sauce.
——"All of us here are just walking museum exhibits."

2024-01-01

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