Life in the Soviet Ukraine seen through the eyes of Western photographers, 1988

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These photographs were taken in 1980 by Bruno Barbie and Carl De Keyser and show the everyday life in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. By the end of the decade, the Soviet Union was a country descending into chaos, torn apart by natural and industrial catastrophes, political and economic crises. Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika and […]

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