On March, 2 we invite you to meet Leonid Mlechin, Soviet and Russian journalist, international observer, TV presenter, writer, author of documentaries, TEFI award winner, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.
The beautiful years and stories depicted in the photographs of 1890-1910 are replaced by symbolic stories of broken trees and emotional portraits; photos of large buildings, factories and the road of «destiny» take the first roles...

«WORLD WAR I. UNFINISHED WAR»

«In that war a great deal of poison was injected into the minds of people. «Better someone else's blood on your knife blade than someone else's knife in your blood» a phrase coined by the German writer Hermann Löns, who volunteered for the front in 1914.
World War I did not solve any of the contradictions tearing Europe apart at the time; worse, it only exacerbated them, and even sowed the seeds of new conflicts that are still burning today. It was not for nothing that after World War I the British writer Richard Aldington called his major novel «All Men are Enemies».
Europe could no longer return to the prosperous state in which it was at the beginning of the century. When World War I broke out, the continent began to slide from the heights of political, military, economic and cultural leadership.
A century later, the national passions ignited by World War I are raging in many European countries. The borders of the Middle East, notionally drawn, still generate endless conflicts to this day. The demons that gave rise to World War I have not gone anywhere».

L.M. Mlechin