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Photo by Yuri Sadovnikov, USSR, 1970s.

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Khreshchatyk at night, Kiev (Kyiv), Ukrainian SSR, 1979 (photo by Mykola Kozlovskyi)

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Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad, 1988 (photo by Cynthia Hilsden)

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In an apartment in one of the houses built in the Olympic Village, Moscow, 1981 (photo by A. Kovtun)

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Trolleybus drivers, communist labor shock workers Raisa Belkovich, Zinaida Khmelchenko, Nina Lavrenetskaya. Photo by Mikhail Savin, Minsk, 1975.

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At the window, 1980s (photo by Vladimir Bogdanov)

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Ойййй времена года🥺

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Tulips blooming in Kyiv, 1970s

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Color photos of Pripyat before the disaster.

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Photo by US photographer Thomas Hammond

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Photos by US photographer Thomas Hammond

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A lovely spring day in St Petersburg 🤦‍♀️

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So much has changed since these photos were taken.

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So I want to be transparent with everyone here for once. I currently do not reside in Russia. And I don’t know when I will be able to come back. That will depend on when Putin dies. And I have a bad feeling that the cunt is going to live until 100 because he will take advantage of every bit of life extending medicine available. Like he probably has daily stem cell injections.

All of the photos I post on here of the view outside my apartment and stuff like that is actually taken by a family member for me. Because I am painfully homesick. Although I do not want to live in the country that Russia is today. I just want to make all this clear so that people are aware that I have the luxury of being able to talk as much shit as I like about the war criminal dictatorship running the country, because I do not currently reside there.

I have been on the FSB’s shit list since my late teens (literally got accused of espionage of all things) because I’m a dual national who was frequently coming and going outside of the country. And there were two instances where they didn’t even want me to leave the country, like withholding my passport and literally not letting me pass border control and get on my fucking plane. When I was a teen I had to have a diplomatic escort just to get me out of there.

And that was a long time ago, before things got really bad. So there’s absolutely no way I will be going back anytime soon. Same goes for my brother who would literally be conscripted and dragged off into the army the second he set foot in the country.

I just want people to be mindful that I am in a position of privilege being able to criticise the murderous regime without my ass being hauled off to gulag. The same does not go for those that actually live in Russia. I love where I grew up, my family, and I miss the place so much it hurts. Especially this time of year when the snow has thawed and the air smells cold and fresh, and the forest has that earthy smell.

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"Collect medicinal herbs!" Soviet poster, 1973.

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In the workshop of the Cherepovets Still Mill, 1990s.