brazil and other stories

By alilantukh

play time's over

all around cherkassy stand unintended monuments to the fall of the soviet union.

this factory used to make equipment for playgrounds. slides, swings, "good quality products" so i was told. but production ground to a halt upon collapse.

the carcasses of factories decay across the town, an omnipresent reminder of the loss of employment and livelihoods caused by those early years of independence, and subsequent economic crises.

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