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In winter 2013 I left for the Soviet Union.
I travelled by land through Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. I wanted to find and live the notion, which since childhood has been ever persistent in my subconsciousness and imagination. The Russianness.
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