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Saturday, May 23, 2009

A RAINY DAY IN THE PROVINCES: ROSTOV-ON-THE-DON

A RAINY DAY IN THE PROVINCES
ON THE EVE OF PERESTROIKA

Lenin Billboard and Car, Rostov-on-the-Don (Russia), USSR, 1984, Photographed by Gwendolyn Stewart, c. 2009; All Rights Reserved

LENIN BILLBOARD & CAR
ROSTOV-ON-THE-DON (RUSSIA), USSR

THINKING AGAIN ABOUT COMMUNISM, III

The USSR on the Eve of Perestroika: "To Us the Most Precious Is the Preservation of Peace" -- V.I. Lenin," the slogan on the billboard says. The year is 1984.

Lenin had died in 1924. (More in HERE BE GIANTS)

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