Rhyming Hard History

The recently released Russian artist, Sasha Skochilenko, “was arrested for replacing supermarket labels with information about the Kremlin’s assault on the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Russia nearly razed the city soon after invading Ukraine in early 2022. On one label, Skochilenko allegedly wrote, ‘the Russian army bombed an art school in Mariupol. About 400 people were hiding from shelling in it.’ She reportedly wanted to demonstrate how free speech has been curtailed under Putin’s rule.”
Source:  https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/russian-artist-sasha-skochilenko-prisoner-swap-1234713450/

Based upon the Gestapo files of an actual case, Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada (Brooklyn, NY:  Melville House, 2009 ISBN 978-1-933633-63-3) is about a middle-aged, working class couple who resist the Nazis in 1940 Berlin.  Otto and Anna Quangel drop postcards and leaflets in mailboxes and in public places protesting Hitler’s government and the war.  They know what they are doing can and probably will result in their capture, torture, and death by the Gestapo.  They also know what they are doing is a very small disturbance in the larger world;  but they must do something.  After the death of their only son in the war, they have nothing to lose.

More at https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/every-man-dies-alone.html
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First published October 25, 2018

Update August 5, 2024:  Alone in Berlin (2017) is an English-language film of the story and there are German and Czech versions as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Man_Dies_Alone

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More Notes on Nazis, Fascism, and Tyranny

https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2024/07/notes-on-nazis-fascism-and-tyranny.html