# Ghosts of WWII **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355 "2010-08-25T01:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/1 "2010-08-25T01:51:30Z")
[Russian photographer photoshops the past into the present.](http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis) I’m sure someone can name and place these buildings for me, please. I’d like to see them as they were before the war and now, not 'shopped. Plus, I like to share. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/2 "2010-08-25T02:48:43Z")
Wow, that’s really cool. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/3 "2010-08-25T03:05:32Z")
Wow. What an evocative series of images. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/4 "2010-08-25T04:29:43Z")
Those are absolutely amazing. Very haunting. I would have enjoyed taking my Dad back to Europe, to get his take on the differences between when he was there in the 40s, and again in the 60s in the military, and as a tourist … I wonder if he would see the past in as haunting a manner … ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/5 "2010-08-25T04:40:50Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Russian photographer photoshops the past into the present.](http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis) > > I’m sure someone can name and place these buildings for me, please. I’d like to see them as they were before the war and now, not 'shopped. Plus, I like to share. The first two are the Reichstag in Berlin. I think the last one is Prague. ---
**Author:** ![Helena\_Handbasket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Helena\_Handbasket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena_Handbasket)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/6 "2010-08-25T12:48:55Z")
I love it that the advert on the kiosk in the 11th pic is for a fancy-schmancy digital camera! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/7 "2010-08-25T13:23:31Z")
A lot of them are Petersburg: [this selection](http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/3194746/post114152362/) has some of the photos shown in the original link, plus others. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghosts-of-wwii/551355/8 "2010-08-25T13:33:18Z")
And another selection [here](http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/elenaist/post132765657/); these ones all have captions. Russian only, but you could plug the captions into an online translator which would then give you enough info to search for non-shopped contemporary photos.