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  • Eric Lusito - Traces of the Soviet Empire
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    Eric Lusito - Traces of the Soviet Empire
    MANDATORY CREDIT: Eric Lusito/Rex Features. Only for use in story about Eric Lusito's "After the Wall: Traces of the Soviet Empire" photo project. Editorial Use Only. No stock, books, advertising or merchandising without photographer's permission
    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Eric Lusito/REX (4033703x)
    Document recovered from a Soviet military base abandoned after the collapse of the USSR.
    1976 poster. Text reads 'Soviet officers are the loyal sons of the people'.
    Eric Lusito - Traces of the Soviet Empire
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    These haunting photographs show the remnants of the once all-powerful Soviet empire.

    They are the work of Eric Lusito, who spent six years travelling throughout the former Soviet world from East Germany to Mongolia, from Poland to Kazakhstan to seek out remains of the military installations that embodied the ambition and the might of the USSR.

    Describing himself as working like an archaeologist, the French photographer says his project "Traces of the Soviet Empire" is a photographic record of the land and architecture - haunted by the symbols and history of a once powerful Empire.

    The on-going project takes the form of three series: exteriors, interiors, and found photographs "images from another time, another space and another world".

    What he found was colourful propaganda wall art, faded frescos of Lenin, discarded gas masks, and huge monuments, including those in the shapes of a soldier and a sword.
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