(AGI) Berlin, Aug. 25 - The "We Will Forget Soon" photo show,promoted by Stefano Corso and Dario-Jacopo Lagana', will beinaugurated at the Meinblau Projektraum in Berlin's PrenzlauerBerg district on Sept. 3. The show is a photographic review ofthe 20 years since the withdrawal of the Red Army from EastGermany. It is a little known part of German history, shownfrom the little lookout tower of Schneekopf (Thuringen), on theWest German border, to the port of Mukran (Rugen,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), from where part of the Soviet armystarted its journey back to Kaliningrad. The area, after theretreat of the soviet forces that occupied East Germany from1945 to 1991, is in shambles, in complete negect and generalindifference. It took Moscow three years to recall half amillion people back to the territory of the Soviet Union,leaving behind abandoned military towns, airports, trainingcamps, dwellings and schools, gyms, cinemas and theatres. Thesecities were surrounded by areas that were completely abandonedand that, during the two decades that followed, were partiallyreabsorbed by nature and partially reused, giving rise to theunique scenarios that the two artists chose to represent. Theproject "We Will Forget Soon. Negated Memories of the Red Armyin former East Germany", which the promoters intended to becomea traveling exhibition through different documentation centres,emerged to counterbalance the concrete risk that the traces ofSoviet boots on German soil be completely erased. (AGI) .
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