Anne Frank - The diary of a young girl

Years ago,during my first days in Amsterdam I always saw marks 'Anne Frank Huis' on the touristic maps of Amsterdam or city guides which I clearly understood meant House of Anne Frank but I did not know who she was.In the beginning I thought Anne Frank was a popular singer or cinema artist [shame on me]

On day in a bookstore I came across the book 'Anne Frank's Diary'
and read the back-cover... and learnt the awful truth..

If you don't know Anne Frank's story read here, on wikipedia.

Recently I came across the book again,The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition, and bought it for sure. I quickly read the diary since she had a good talent on writing.




My interest in her story guided me to find two movies on her, first one is "Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)" which is a rather long movie[3 hours] but I liked it very much, although the concentration camp stories during the end were...














The other movie is the 1959 dated "The Diary of Anne Frank" which has 3 oscars & 4 nominations.

The movie is in black& white and I think the former movie is better since Anne is player by a smaller girl and shows the hope and character of Anne better.














History Channel also has a 45 minute documentary on her life which has interviews with Anne's father Otto Frank, Miep,the nice lady who helped them during hiding and Anne's childhood friends.

I need to visit Anne Frank Huis one more time...

Novodevichy Cemetery, @Nazim's

During my various visits to Moscow,I always wanted to visit Nazim Hikmet, unfortunately I did not have time. During my last visit we managed to visit Nazim at Novodevichy Cemetery.He was lying there with his latest wife Vera Tulyakova.














I was hoping to visit Nadejda Alleliyuva's grave also,but the graveyard was so big and since we payed a visit to Novodevichy Monastory before the cemetery we were already tired so everyone wanted to leave.

The biggest grave belongs to Boris Yeltsin, it is the biggest and just in the center that you can not possibly miss.






Novodevichy Monastary is worth visiting also, it is in the list of UNESCO's World Heritage.

3 Sites for alternative movies to hot-topic hollywood films

I came across these 3 sites while I was looking for Sergei Einstein movies.

ForiegnMovies http://www.foriegnmoviesddl.com/
Criterion Collection http://www.criterion.com/
Janus Films http://www.janusfilms.com/

The first one has an extensive rapidshare collection of movies,current number of Russian movies is 87 for example,55 for Turkish films,21 Dutch and 18 Romaian

Discovery Channel's The Most Evil Men in Hostory - Vlad the Impaler

This is the third documentary that I wanted from the series.The previous ones were Rasputin and Ivan The Terrible.

The first two episodes of the series was far from being informative but this one was better.

Vlad's father's nameDracul means Dragon in Romanian language hence the name Dracula means son of Dracul/Dragon.

Vlad, together with his brother was handed to the Ottomans by their father as an insurance policy to support his treaty agreement with the Turks. The Ottomans trained Vlad to be the man after his father which he did but later he turned his back to the Turks, and punished for sure :)

The best blog on Russia&USSR

One of my colleques in Russia pointed me to this very best blog on Russia&USSR.The name of the blog is Turkish Invasion.

I enjoyed every single post and it has really nice soviet-era photos.Personaly,the one showing Brejnev in pool is the best.

You should check it yourselves!

God Bless docuwiki.net

I have found,downloaded,watched and loved many documentaried from http://docuwiki.net/. This is a site with great documentaries with emule or rapidshare links.I wish this site grows bigger with contributions and lives for ever!

Book Review: Yalnizca Eglenmek icin

The book is the story of Linus Torvalds,creator of Linux, his life, his ideas, how he created Linux.
The book should be half in size,there is unnecessarily long opinions on open source,licenses,Richard Stallman...

Well..not a big loss if you did not read.

Book Review: 1989 Berlin Duvari

I liked this book very much,it contains the most logical,deeper analysis of collapse of socialist block.

In fact the book only makes these analysis for East Germany but I believe most are applicable to the whole block of countries.Here is the ideefixe link if you want to buy.

The Soviet Story

The Soviet Story is a 2008 Latvian documentary about Soviet terror and Soviet-German relations before 1941 and is sponsored by the UEN Group in the European Parliament.

The documentary says that Soviets inspired Nazis about the holocaust since they invented concentration camps and mass murders long before WW2.

Also they state many documents about Nazi-Soviet cooperation before and during the war.

There are also shocking scenes about the famine in Ukraine.The homepage of the movie is http://www.sovietstory.com/

The documentary contains several interviews with victims of those days and soviet officers.

Parks of Moscow

Whenever my visits to Moscow happen during spring or summer I realize how green and bright is Moscow.I read somewhere [from an architect] that modern capital cities of Europe has 10 meter square green area per person and this ratio is only 2 for Istanbul and it is 55-60 for Moscow!!

Moscow has many many beautiful parks all around the city,I had a chance to view only a few of them,let me briefly introduce them with one sentence. The list is in the order I visited.

Kolomenskoye: Can be reached of with metro station Kolomenskaya on green line.This is a lovely and huge park with a beautiful green environment



Tsaritsino : Hosts the palace of Caterina-II,also a nice park with beautiful nature.It also has a metro station with its name on green line.

VDNX: This huge park contains soviet era buildings and statues with Stalinist architecture.Not a nature park but it also hosts a nice lake with green atmosphere. Also a VDHX station exists on moscow metro,the orange line.

Gorki : The only park I had to pay to ente and the worst one :) I even do not remember what was inside. Can be reached at Metro Park Kultury,in fact Park Kultury is right across Gorki Park,but i did not have time to visit.

Park Pobedi: Very nice park again,a must see.It also hosts a World War museum but it was closed when i got there.Everyone was skating in the park even children and old-aged couples.

It can be reached through Park Pobedi station which is the deepest one in Moscow Metro and it is claimed to be the deepest in the world.