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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!

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    The corner shop

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

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    In the airport’s backyard

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    The gate of a former collective farm in Ungheni

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    Along the main train station of the city

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    A Post-Communist gas station, yet a Communist feeling

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    Industry

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

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