🧶 #MemoryMondays | The Door
✍️ Khanum Gevorgyan
She counted down to zero.
At zero, the door would open.
Her father home from Russia—
a taped duffel bag, Russian chocolates, relief.
A childhood shaped by migration, war, and waiting.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Sleepy Smuggles
✍️ Sarah Fichtner
She wasn’t asleep.
She just knew not to open her eyes.
A child, a border, a hidden magazine.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.
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🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight
“Rua Liga Dos Comunistas”
✍️ By José Cossa
What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion.
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🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2: ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’
✍️ By Pia Koivunen
What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method?
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