The '80s weren't a great time for those living in the USSR, although those living in Moscow had it better than most. Here's a look at everyday life of the Soviets in the late 1980s. These amazing photographs were taken by Chris Niedenthal in 1984 through 1989.
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Moscow market, 1989 |
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A Moscow man, 1988 |
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Bakery in Moscow, 1989 |
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Baku, Azerbaijan, 1989 |
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Book stall in Moscow, 1989 |
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'Don't look!', Arbat, Moscow, 1989 |
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Drying off after swimming lessons, Moscow, 1989 |
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Elections in Riga, Latvia, 1989 |
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'Glasnost' on the Arbat, 1989 |
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Group baptism in a Russian Orthodox church, Moscow, 1989 |
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Hockey played in a Moscow housing estate, 1984 |
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Lenin, 1988 |
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Moscow apartament, 1989 |
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Moscow bride and groom, after the wedding in Moscow, 1984 |
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Moscow family, 1989 |
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Moscow girl, 1988 |
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Boris Yeltsin during election rally, Moscow, 1989 |
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Moscow school, 1984 |
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Moscow school, 1989 |
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Moscow school, 1984 |
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Moscow suburbs, 1989 |
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Orthodox priest in a Moscow hospital, 1989 |
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Party Congress as seen from street level, Moscow, 1988 |
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Samarkanda, 1989 |
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Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko with his wife, 1984 |
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Duma, Moscow, 1989 |
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Soviet trolleybus, 1989 |
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Street artist and the Red Army, on the Arbat, 1989 |
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Taman Division during training, 1988 |
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Tea break at factory producing busts and statues of Lenin, 1989 |
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TV store in Moscow, 1988 |
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Weight watchers, Moscow, 1988 |
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Women's day at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1984 |