At the entrance to the Republic of Moldova’s second-largest city Balti, huge Soviet mosaics celebrate a paradise for the proletariat and peasants. A travel blog published on The Black Sea and Moldova.org. Giant mosaics decorate residential blocks constructed in the Soviet era in the industrial city of Balti in north Moldova. These images combine traditional folklore with Socialist realism to promote hope in an industrial […]
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Two nations, countless wars, two revolutions and three decades of drug addiction – recovering user Eka reveals her legacy of opiate abuse from the USSR to today – a story from Tbilisi. Georgia, published on The Black Sea website “Nobody could imagine a woman injecting drugs – that was the best mask for me,” says […]
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