MyCentury

07/10/2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250826-the-soviet-artwork-that-spied-on-the-us

A listening device hidden in an artwork in 1945 was undetected by US security for seven years – and it's not the only example of art having been manipulated for subterfuge.

03/10/2025

The end of the Soviet Union. Captured over 3 years by Juris Podnieks.

Juris Podnieks was a Latvian film director. He graduated from the Moscow VGIK film school in 1975 and worked at the Riga Film Studio. Over 3 years Podnieks filmed his documentary 'Hello, do you hear us?' as the Soviet Union was collapsing. It showed civil unrest in Uzbekistan, survivors of the earth...

11/09/2025

A very interesting first documentary about the role of the Ukrainian peacekeepers in the Balkans and in particular during the war against Bosnia 1992-1996.
Thanks to the crew and all involved.

«Українські миротворці. Балкани» — це документальна історія про перший бойовий досвід української армії після відновлення незалежності. У час, коли молода де...

08/09/2025

Ohrid 1926 Охрид

Street in Ohrid, Macedonia

08/09/2025

https://mycentury.tv/bulgaria/borci-za-mir-1950

Your browser does not support the video tag. Four years before 'Bulgaria’s Stalin' Valko Tchervenkov was toppled, we see his successor Todor Zhivkov boarding a plane with an official Bulgarian delegation on its way to Warsaw. 39-years old and already a rising star, Zhivkov is only a few months awa...

25/08/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/mariam-abu-dagga-gaza-journalist-killed-in-israeli-strike-carried-her-camera-into-the-heart-of-the-field

The 33-year-old photojournalist committed to conveying suffering of civilians with ‘rare honesty and courage’

06/08/2025

Communist Bulgaria was extremely popular with tourists from East Germany/GDR. They loved its sunny beaches and mountain peaks, the countryside as well as the cities. As a matter of fact Bulgaria was the southernmost destination East Germans could travel to, the footpath in Melnik for instance was lined with warning signs in German, that beyond was a border zone and trespassers will be shot.

Tourists from Germany's eastern parts wrote back home, often ecstatic about their stay in Bulgaria. Some of these postcards have now found their way into the interactive DDR Museum in Berlin. Here are a few of them.

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Danke, DDR Museum

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30/07/2025

First photo album of Sofia after World War II.

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A piece of visual history - the first photo album of the Bulgarian capital after the Communist takeover in 1944. Most of the over 100 photographs were taken by Architect Nikolay Popov and Pencho Balkanski, both established internationally in the 1930, with exhibitions in Vienna and Belgrade.

28/07/2025

How Communist Bulgaria tried to silence Radio Skopje.
Заглушителите на Радио Скопие в живкова България.

11/07/2025

Srebrenica 11 July
https://mycentury.tv/balkani/146-srebrenica-11-july-2010.html

07/07/2025

https://impressio.dir.bg/litsa/ne-moga-da-si-predstavya-che-e-imalo-chovek-koyto-ne-go-obicha-kazva-nikolay-binev-za-stefan-voronov

Днес се навършват 80 години от рождението на певеца и актьор Стефан Воронов

06/07/2025

Sarajevo, Spring 1996. End of the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare, lasting for 1424 days.

The Bosnian capital was besieged by about 13,000 Serb troops on the surrounding hills. They terrorised round the clock the civilian population of Sarajevo, killing nearly 10,000 people, including over 1,500 children.

In late February 1996 Bosnian Serb forces left positions in and around Sarajevo, followed by tens of thousands of local Serbs. They took all of their belongings with them, damaging property and in many cases leaving behind in their old homes concealed explosive devices.