Soviet Unterzoegersdorf
Soviet Unterzoegersdorf (german: Sowjet-Unterzögersdorf) is a fictitious country created by the art/technology/theory group monochrom. It is the "last existing appanage republic of the USSR", located inside the Republic of Austria. Unterzögersdorf is partially based on an existing village well known to Johannes Grenzfurthner, the creator of the concept. As a kid and teenager, Grenzfurthner spent a lot of time at his grandparents' farm in the small village of Unterzögersdorf (a cadastral municipality of Stockerau). His grandparents' stories about the Nazism, WWII and the Soviet occupation in allied-occupied Austria (1945–1955) form the inspirational basis of the long-term project ''Soviet Unterzoegersdorf''. :In the early 2000s, notorious Austrian art group monochrom decided to have a little fun with the spirit of (nostalgia for the Soviet era), the cultural whiplash from the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union a decade earlier. monochrom founder Johannes Grenzfurthner, havi ...
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