Contextualising the war in Ukraine
Part One
30 March 2022
While the major news outlets are doing a great job pushing out up-to-the-minute imagery from the war in Ukraine, akg-images are busy putting current events into a cultural and historical context. It's what we do best.
In the first of our series on the contextually-linked topics of the war in Ukraine, we explore the Cold War, the history of energy in the region and the role of visual propaganda.
The Cold War
• Cold War
• Cold War - the hydrogen bomb
• Cold War - Space Exploration: USA
• Cold War - Space Exploration: Soviet Union
Other key events include the Berlin Blockade, the Korean war, the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam war, and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
Soviet - Russian Energy
A visual history of oil, natural gas, and coal in the region, and the development of Nord Stream 2.
Propaganda Posters and Art
In times when few newspapers were published, the poster was a powerful weapon.
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