Stilyagi
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Stilyagi were members of a Soviet youth counterculture movement from the late 1940s until the early 1960s. A stilyaga was primarily distinguished by snappy clothing—preferably foreign-label clothing a
A Ukrainian anti-stilyagi poster on display in a window in the Soviet Union, c. 1950s-1970s
Swingjugend
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The Swing Youth were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg and Berlin, they were composed of 14- to 21-year-old Germans, mos
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An artistic depiction of the subculture from an exhibition at the Humboldt Forum
A monument to the "Weiße Rose" in front of LMU Munich
Prisoners at Ravensbrück concentration camp