Abandoned ussr (Tapa dura)

"Relics of the Soviet conquest of space, Moscow Pioneer camps, remnants of propaganda

along a journey sparsely dotted with statues of Stalin or Lenin, from traditional Moldovan

houses to ghosts of the Caucasian wars, by way of petro-chemical factories in the

Donbass ... this report invites the reader to relive, through its striking pictures, more than a

hundred years of history, from the beginnings of the Soviet period to the legacy of a

communist era now fast fading from memory.

Terence Abela has spent nine years travelling across the former USSR unearthing fragments

from its past. "