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In 1989 Romania violently ended decades of communism, but not everything was wiped out. Some things in my life still taste of communism.

One day I took my Smena 8M on a bicycle ride across the Transylvanian city of Targu Mures.

The Smena 8M was a simple and very affordable camera made in the USSR. The world seen through its lens is very different!

To be continued!

Workers take a bus ride home

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

Ironically, this Mercedes O305G bus was build in Western-Germany during the Cold War and had been imported in Post-Communist Romania.
An upgrade that actually freezes time and throws us back into the passed era.

The corner shop

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

Mobile phones aren’t for everyone

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

This public phones were upgraded after the fall of communism, but their users didn’t change.

One retired MiG-21

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I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

In the airport’s backyard

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

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The gate of a former collective farm in Ungheni

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

Azomures : a fertilizer-producing plant

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

Along the main train station of the city

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I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

A Post-Communist gas station, yet a Communist feeling

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

Industry

I Used A Soviet Camera To Capture The Taste Of Communist Romania

I forgot to wind the camera and I now have a picture of both ongoing and abandoned communist industry examples.

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