"Your place is warm, but the streets are waiting
for our footprints.
On my boots there’s a dust of stars.
A soft armchair, checkered plaid.
A trigger not pulled in time.
Such an sunny day—in blinding dreams."
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Victor Tsoi--'Grupa Krovi'.
Thank you to NotAnOligarch,
meltedbee and my offsite friends Vince and Pat for the crit. An piece of Iron-Curtain noir poetry, inspired in part by the real examples translated and published in the West at the height of the Cold War.
Image credits (former picture was taken by CGP Grey): (1).
New image is artwork drawn by IRL friend D. Vega (also known by his artist's title A.A, reduced to an acronym because it's full name that isn't exactly…WL appropriate)
The term ‘Strichtarn’ refers to the camouflage developed by the military of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)—better known as former East Germany. The literal translation of the pattern is ‘line camouflage', strich being tied closely to its English counterpart, stripe, but certain Western observers would ditch that term in favor of the more descriptive ‘rain camo’, for the way the stripes were spaced, rounded like dirty raindrops being exposed by a slow shutter—embodied in the manner guards positioned on the Berlin Wall and underground in the U-Bahn stations moved. Plodding. Meticulous. Languid. Kalashnikovs held low at their waist. They were not meant to keep people out, but in.
Juwel cigarettes were an popular East German brand—and being the cheapest: 2.50 marks for an pack of twenty—were often the only marquee accessible to the workingman. The PM Makarov was an pistol developed by the Soviet Union which was subsequently copied and mass produced by its satellite states.