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These people even can't hide a watch on the picture... But in Soviet time they did well without Photoshop. For a proof you can go to the GULAG exhibition in the Moscow Museum devoted

to photography falsification in the epoch of Stalin. It's called "The Commissar Vanishes", though not only commissars used to disappear and not on photos only. ..

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The exclusion Chernobyl zone on the terrotiry of Belarus. Tulgovichi village. It is the only local village still inhabited by people. In 1986 after

the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power station all citizens of the polluted territories were evicted but some refused to leave.

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Some nice military

artwork by Gleb Vasilyev.

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This time we will go down to the mysterious underground of Serpukhov, the Moscow region. The bomb shelter is rather odd: starting from its exposure to a blast wave (all rules of protective shelters embedding are violated) and finishing with its poor condition (it's abandoned and

flooded) and bad planning. For some unknown reason it was built from two not interconnected parts. Each block has its own entry and its emergency exit. There are a DPS and a filtration unit in one block and another filtration unit in the second one.