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 |
