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nostalgia

Old new in new packaging

MEMORIES: Nostalgia has been made into a commercial product that makes the past a constant and pressing presence. Do we really belong in a past tense? Memories are today produced, preserved and managed by commercial actors, by cultural products – which, to say it with Marx, are fetishized. Pop cultural products of the past are recycled, made into collectibles and picture books for the coffee table, sold as retro designs.

The uninhibited celebration of Soviet nostalgia

Unbridled dancing and exchange of stories of the greatness of the past: The 'Pobedy portrays Soviet nostalgia and Prorussian sentiments among Russian nationalists and their like-minded.