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Polluted Garden, Romania, 1995

Photo by Antonin Kratochvil / VII. Polluted Garden, Romania, 1995.

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From the series "Broken Dream: Twenty Years of War in Eastern Europe," 1976-1995. Life during the depths of the Cold War — an era of immense corruption, pollution, loneliness, and terror reveals an unknown and desolate world of workers, gypsies, thieves, street kids, and refugees in the Communist countries of Eastern Europe.

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