The London Museum opened a photo exhibition: Kyiv-2022 and London-1940

"Blitz moon: underground shelters in Ukraine and London" is the name of the photo exhibition that opened at the London Transport Museum.

It collected 70 photos from the archives, in which Londoners are hiding from the Luftwaffe bombings in the 1940s, and modern photos of the residents of Ukraine, forced to go down to the subway during the Russian attacks.

bomb shelter in the subway

PHOTO BY TFL/VIACHESLAV RATYNSKYI

Photo Caption, Left: September 1940, Piccadilly Circus station, people sitting by the escalator. Right: January 2023, Kyivites sit at the Teatralna station
bomb shelter in the subway

PHOTO BY TFL/SERHII KOROVAYNY

Photo caption, Left: Londoners hide from German bombs at Piccadilly Circus station, 1940. Right: Kharkiv resident at Heroyiv Prati metro station, May 21, 2022.
bomb shelter in the subway

PHOTO BY TFL/MAXIM DONDYUK

image captionThe London Transport Museum has provided archival photos from its collection. Photographs from Ukraine were mostly taken by independent Ukrainian journalists
bomb shelter in the subway

PHOTO BY TLF/DOROHOI

image captionIt is noteworthy that at the start of the Second World War the British government did not want to allow people to hide in underground stations: they thought it was more important to keep the trains running. But the people went to the subway, the press and the parliament protested, and the authorities had to retreat.
bomb shelter in the subway

PHOTO BY TFL/VIACHESLAV RATYNSKYI

image captionPhotos from the 1940s were censored to portray Londoners uniting against the Nazis. Pictures of Ukrainian photographers show the realities of today's war, which was unleashed by Russia
bomb shelter in the subway

PHOTO BY TLF/DOROHOI

image captionIn London, air raid alarms sounded almost every day from September 1940 to May 1941, and again between June 1944 and March 1945. Residents usually hid in the underground. In Kyiv, at the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022, about 40 thousand people hid in the subway every day
bomb shelter in the subway

PHOTO BY TFL/MAXIM DONDYUK

image captionIt was so common in London in the 1940s that there were special bomb shelter tickets, bunk beds on the platforms, food distribution and in some places even libraries and music. Kyivans and Kharkiv residents of 2022 also had to create home comfort on the platforms and hold concerts
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