1. Soviets line up on the Red Square
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2. A Moscow taxi
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3. Soldiers sitting on park bench with a child
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4. A Lenin portrait on the Bolshoi Theater
(The text says: “LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION!”)
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5. Lenin banners hanging on the State Historical Museum and traffic on Mokhovaya Street
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6. Pedestrians
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7. Following Soviet tradition, a wedding party walks on the Red Square in Moscow to have photos taken
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8. A generation gap on a bench: old ladies and a young couple
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9. Russian youth hanging out
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10. Schoolgirls eating lunch
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11. Mothers with their babies
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12. Muscovites applying for emigration outside an embassy
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13. A Russian Orthodox wedding
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14. Young woman smoking on a train
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15. Westernization of Russia: A line to enter the first McDonald’s
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16. A Moscow hair salon
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17. A homeless man sitting by a makeshift tent city near the Red Square
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18. A Moscow food market
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19. At a butcher’s
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20. A man pulling children on a sled
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21. A Siberian woman at the front gate of her house
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22. Women buying milk
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23. A line to a food store
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24. Soviet-style souvenirs on Arbat street in Moscow
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25. A man selling Communist paraphernalia on a Moscow street
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26. World War II veterans attending the V-Day celebrations
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27. Fallen monuments of former Soviet leaders
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28. A patient receiving a breath analyzing examination in a Soviet sanatorium
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29. The coup attempt in 1991
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30. Mikhail Gorbachev sitting at his desk shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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