SAKHALIN, RUSSIA,
&
AN OLD
JAPANESE CONNECTION
PAPER MILL, KHOLMSK (RUSSIA)
ISLAND OF SAKHALIN, USSR, 1984
This plant was built by Japan when it held the southern half of Sakhalin (Karafuto), and "renovated," so I had read, by the Soviets in the fifties. It looked like a scene out of a movie about the evils of old capitalist exploitation, and gave forth a stench that sent my local guide fleeing from the plant floor to get some air.
-- from RUSSIA REDUX
