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Back in the USSR
I’ve been hard at work organizing travel photos to inspire future travel. A lot has changed since these photos were taken in 1988 in Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg). Note the communist imagery and the absence of commercialism. Leningrad Leningrad (now St....
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