... we will preserve our Holy German Art" (Wagner, "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg").  American cartoonist Stephen Roth seems to have been less convinced of the liberating influence of Naziism on German art (1940).  Best regards, JR.

"Then let the glories of this Holy Rome depart ...

This is a map about Karelia. It is nowadays but Ingria is from the time of Sweden king where finns lived. That is 1809, but there live many hich speak Finnish. Like Estonians who belong to Finnish-Ugric langauage group. My Father has a freetime flat in Tallinn. We  may speak there in Finnis and they anser in Estonian. Younger people speak English. They do not speak German. Tehe buildings are Mid-European style or German style. Very nice. It is like uou jump to an other world with ferry in 85 kilometers. Many Finns go there to bye beer  and so making themselfs as donies but there are some 4000 Finnish enterprises in Tallinn too. ussians have some 5000 'datsha' sommer houses in finland and yearly some 4 million russian The Gulf of Finland is begomin small.s visit finland.

Karelia

Iconic British Government poster, encouraging the population to convert their gardens (if they had them) into vegetable patches.  A powerful, muscular image - some Soviet influence, perhaps ?  JR.