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The Remains of the Red Man

2021-10-15T15:27:24.404Z


A photographer traveled to the USSR to keep track of the heritage of one hundred years of communism. A statue of Lenin, once a conqueror and today beheaded, large frescoes celebrating pioneers now scaled, a former palace of Ukrainian culture eaten away by humidity ... In its very good collection dedicated to abandoned heritage, Éditions Jonglez is making the spotlight. share well in the traces of the USSR. The sight of this submerged world is cold in the back. See also Dear comrades !, back to t


A statue of Lenin, once a conqueror and today beheaded, large frescoes celebrating pioneers now scaled, a former palace of Ukrainian culture eaten away by humidity ... In its very good collection dedicated to abandoned heritage, Éditions Jonglez is making the spotlight. share well in the traces of the USSR.

The sight of this submerged world is cold in the back.

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Dear comrades !, back to the USSR

We can see, thanks to the vastness of the spaces, the power of propaganda and the Soviets' desire to embody it.

Kingdom of concrete and excess, this heritage carries with it storms and crushes.

What speeches were made in this house of Moldavian culture, dating from the Stalinist era, with these faded armchairs?

Huge rusty hammers and sickles lie at the entrance to a ghost company in Kazakhstan.

Not far from Baikonur, a Soyuz launcher rests in an abandoned hangar.

We owe the series of photos to Terence Abela, who traveled through the former Soviet Union and many of his

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Source: lefigaro

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