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I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania
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I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

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In 1989 Romania violently ended decades of communism, but not everything was wiped out. Some things in my life still taste of communism.

One day I took my Smena 8M on a bicycle ride across the Transylvanian city of Targu Mures.

The Smena 8M was a simple and very affordable camera made in the USSR. The world seen through its lens is very different!

To be continued!

Workers take a bus ride home

Ironically, this Mercedes O305G bus was build in Western-Germany during the Cold War and had been imported in Post-Communist Romania.
An upgrade that actually freezes time and throws us back into the passed era.

The corner shop

Mobile phones aren’t for everyone

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This public phones were upgraded after the fall of communism, but their users didn’t change.

One retired MiG-21

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In the airport’s backyard

The gate of a former collective farm in Ungheni

Azomures : a fertilizer-producing plant

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Along the main train station of the city

A Post-Communist gas station, yet a Communist feeling

Industry

I forgot to wind the camera and I now have a picture of both ongoing and abandoned communist industry examples.

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Teodor Gorea

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