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Original source, also lists the locations.

There are also places in a number of these cities where limited amounts of the ww2 damage are left un-repaired, as a memorial and a live version of these composites.

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Thank you.

This one just... froze me. http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/000029eg/

The photographer has started with the photographs of Saint-Petersburg/Leningrad, where he lives. The siege of Leningrad [1] was one of the most atrocious events of the WWII in Europe.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Blockade

I find this one to be most unsettling: http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0002922z/

I live in Vienna, and am constantly on the lookout for signs of the old wars. Its a very sobering experience to walk down some street and then realize later that was the site of intense street fighting and massacre.

There are, I believe, buildings in Vienna where the bullet holes are left unplastered and the cyrillic graffiti left by Soviet soldiers can still be read. At least, there were when I lived there a decade or so ago.

And, of course, there is this

http://pics.livejournal.com/sergey_larenkov/pic/0005twp2

Yes, there are a few. The most recent one I saw was in the 5th district, by the Schlossquadrat, on a backstreet. It had a plaque.

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