War and Instagram in Ukraine
For the last few years, enthusiasts have documented Ukraine’s Soviet buildings online. Since February, they’ve been bombed and shelled. What happens next?
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Sporto Rumai, sport center, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1971. Photo by Frédéric Chaubin
Ten years ago, the French photographer Frédéric Chaubin published a glossy, mass-market coffee table book on late Soviet architecture, with a fake Cyrillic pun for a title — CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. With its epic depictions of strange architectural objects, monumental artworks, and epic interiors, it sold well. But what happened next is more interesting. […]