It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
More Josephine Baker trivia: Örnulf (”Ulfven” among friends) Tigerstedt was a Finland-Swedish fascist poet and political activist in the 1920’s and 1930’s. IKL was a small but loud quasi-fascist party on the political scene in Finland in the 1930’s and 40’s. They did not get along:
I wanted authority and heroic achievements and the pack seconded [...]
Here’s a nice illustration to the previous post about extremist receptions of Josephine Baker in Finland, from Kurikka no 6 1933.
Hilja: - Woman, if you don’t get out of here while you still can, you’ll taste this!
Not completely unrelated to my upcoming thesis. One of my challenges is to debunk the old lazy idea that “there was no racism in Finland before those damn foreigners came here”. The Finnish idea of nationhood is very much built upon an impossible ideal of purity, as well as a sense of constant threat towards [...]
I have posted a small review of Laibach’s latest album Volk in Yellow Peril. An in-depth review is available in Finnish for those who frequent Lassen Purkki.
Inspired by that iconoclastic industrial band from Slovenia (where some gruesome battlegrounds from the Great War are located), I drew an anti-propaganda poster of Falco in the battle of [...]
Tomorrow, 88 years will have passed since German politicians - civilians - signed the armistice declaration in a railway carriage at Compiégne, under the watchful eye of France’s Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The German military leaders refused to participate in the “shameful” peace, thus placing the blame on the politicians. The myth of the undefeated army, [...]