02-01-2014 Soviet era statues relocated to Memento Park Museum, Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 Visitor taking photographs of Soviet era statues relocated to Memento Park Museum, Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 Soviet era statues relocated to Memento Park Museum, Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 Visitor looking at disgarded Soviet era statues, including one of Lenin, laying outside Memento Park Museum Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 Disgarded Soviet era statues, including one of Lenin, laying outside Memento Park Museum Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

02-01-2014 Disgarded Soviet era statues, including one of Lenin, laying outside Memento Park Museum Budapest, Hungary © Janina Struk

10-08-2013 The Brothers - waitin' t'gan down, a sculpture by Brian Brown in memory of miners in Seaham, County Durham. It is dedicated to all those who worked so hard below ground and under the sea at Seaham, Da... © Philip Wolmuth

14-04-2012 Boys sitting on a pavement playing the bandura in the centre of Kiev, Ukraine. © Janina Struk

14-04-2012 Onlookers stand aside as a Patriarch leaves St Michaels Monastery, Kiev, Ukraine. © Janina Struk

24-03-2012 Passengers at Vorota metro station, Kiev, Ukraine. An example of late Soviet architecture, The station was opened as part of the Syretsko-Pecherska Line on December 30, 1989. The design contributed a... © Janina Struk

29-12-2011 Aufklrungsturm A in Klaustorf Groenbrode, Germany. During the cold war it enabled the Bundeswehr (BND) Air Force to observe radio communication and detect electronic intelligence from the Eastern Bloc... © Timm Sonnenschein

26-07-2009 Damaged statue of Stalin from the former Soviet Union (USSR) abandoned in the basement of the Museum of Modern History, Veliko Tarnovo. © Philip Wolmuth

22-07-2009 A young woman talking on a mobile phone passes the Bulgarian National Assembly, Sofia. © Philip Wolmuth

17-04-2009 Uniformed guards outside the Presidential Offices in Sofia, Bulgaria. © Philip Wolmuth

17-04-2009 Uniformed guards outside the Presidential Offices in Sofia, Bulgaria. © Philip Wolmuth

24-12-2008 The eastern side of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. Greece. © Jess Hurd

24-12-2008 The eastern side of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. Greece. © Jess Hurd

15-04-2007 A Roma gypsy transvestite walking down the street, Jibou, Romania © Justin Tallis

15-04-2007 An afternoon celebration at Easter, in the town of Jibou, Romania. © Justin Tallis

15-04-2007 A Roma gypsy transvestite dancing in the street, in the town of Jibou, Romania. © Justin Tallis

15-04-2007 A Roma gypsy transvestite walking down the street, in the town of Jibou, Romania © Justin Tallis

13-04-2007 A Roma gypsy transvestite walking down the street, in the town of Jibou, Romania © Justin Tallis

13-04-2007 A Roma gypsy transvestite dancing in the street, in the town of Jibou, Romania. © Justin Tallis

21-05-2005 Bronze death mask of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Mark Pinder

21-05-2005 Bronze death mask of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Mark Pinder

21-05-2005 Bronze death mask of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Mark Pinder

21-05-2005 Bronze death mask of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Mark Pinder

21-05-2005 Bronze death mask of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Mark Pinder

21-05-2005 Bronze death mask of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Mark Pinder

21-05-2005 Bronze death mask of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori, Republic of Georgia © Mark Pinder

21-05-2005 One of the last remaining public statues dedicated to former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in Gori, Republic of Georgia, 21/5 2005. © Mark Pinder

09-03-2005 An unemployed woman reads a newspaper at a bus stand made in mosaic where no more bus service occurs, in the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi, Georgia, March 2005. This region of Abkhazia, officially still part... © Boris Heger

09-03-2005 A woman walks past a building destroyed during the war in the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi, Georgia, March 2005. This region of Abkhazia, officially still part of Georgia, conducted a separatist war with Ge... © Boris Heger

26-11-2004 Sveti Sava Eastern Orthodox Cathedral in Belgrade, Serbia 2004. Archetecter by Bogdan Nestorovi§ and Aleksandar Deroko © Andrija Ilic

05-03-2003 Dilapidated tower blocks sit upon the high ground over looking Georgias capital Tbilisi have been home for many of the 350,000 Abkhazian refugees since the war in 1993. More than 40,000 people were ki... © Thomas Morley

05-03-2003 Dilapidated tower blocks sit upon the high ground over looking Georgias capital Tbilisi have been home for many of the 350,000 Abkhazian refugees since the war in 1993. More than 350,000 refugees were... © Thomas Morley

05-03-2003 An Abkhazian refugee sells old household items amongst the dilapidated tower blocks sit upon the high ground over looking Georgias capital Tbilisi have been home for many of the 350,000 Abkhazian refu... © Thomas Morley

24-09-1997 An elderly Polish man at a remembrance ceremony in Krakow, held in memory of victims of Nazi concentration camps. © Janina Struk

15-09-1996 Elderly woman walking down a cobbled street past an imposing catholic church, Lviv, Ukraine © Janina Struk

12-09-1990 On the original Stari Most - the 16th century Ottoman bridge spanning the Neretva river in Mostar, Herzegovina, Western Bosnia, 1990 © Martin Mayer

12-09-1990 Old Mostar in Herzegovina ( Western Bosnia) on the Neretva river © Martin Mayer

10-09-1990 Maker of traditional copper and brassware at work in his shop in Sarajevo tourist district of Old Town, Bosnia. The sign behind him says Hand for Work and Peace - a hope that was later thwarted, Bosni... © Martin Mayer

09-09-1990 The UNITIC Twin Skyscrapers or twin towers of the business centre in Sarajevo, Marindvor, Bosnia. 1990 © Martin Mayer

09-09-1990 The Building of the Parliamentary Assembly, Bistrik, Sarajevo. 1990 © Martin Mayer

09-09-1990 High rise suburbs in Sarajevo 1990 © Martin Mayer

09-09-1990 A musician in Serbian national costume plays a traditional Serbian song on a single stringed gusle instrument at a gathering after an election rally of the Bosnian Serb nationalist Serbian Democratic... © Martin Mayer

07-09-1990 Footprints of Gavrilo Princip in the pavement where he shot Archduke Ferdinand. The Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assasinated the heir to the Austrian throne on 28th June 1914, thus precipitatin... © Martin Mayer

07-09-1990 Memorial bust in the Bosnian capaital Sarajevo of Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip who shot heir to the Austrian throne Archduke Ferdinand on 28th June 1914, thus precipitating the First World War.... © Martin Mayer

07-09-1990 The original Stari Most the old 16th century Ottoman bridge over the Neretva river in Mostar, Bosnia in 1990, before it was blown up during the civil war by Croatian forces. It was eventually rebuilt... © Martin Mayer

07-09-1990 The original Stari Most the old 16th century Ottoman bridge over the Neretva river in Mostar, Bosnia in 1990, before it was blown up during the civil war by Croatian forces. It was eventually rebuilt... © Martin Mayer