(Pictures) Poverty, prostitutes, and the long, slow death of the Soviet Union
08-11-2014, 07:14 AM
I thought that this was pretty cool. Pictures showing life in Moscow and other cities in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-USSR.html
![[Image: article-2255693-16B57B4B000005DC-367_964x632.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/01/article-2255693-16B57B4B000005DC-367_964x632.jpg)
Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR
![[Image: article-2255693-16B57B6B000005DC-130_964x656.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/01/article-2255693-16B57B6B000005DC-130_964x656.jpg)
Small comfort: Women stand next to several vodka bottles which they are exchanging for small change at a recycling point
![[Image: article-2255693-16B57B02000005DC-633_964x645.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/01/article-2255693-16B57B02000005DC-633_964x645.jpg)
Taking their minds off things: Siberian men relax outside a shack in the town of Novokuznetsk, which was hit hard by widespread economic problems in the early 90s
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-USSR.html
Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before the collapse of the USSR
Small comfort: Women stand next to several vodka bottles which they are exchanging for small change at a recycling point
Taking their minds off things: Siberian men relax outside a shack in the town of Novokuznetsk, which was hit hard by widespread economic problems in the early 90s