Analyzing the look of external things near the center of the capital of a country obsessed with centralizing power, leads to the wrong conclusions. At the time

Analyzing the look of external things near the center of the capital of a country obsessed with centralizing power, leads to the wrong conclusions. At the time of the taking of these pictures, somewhere else in the Soviet Union my mother, who was still a child, developed a number of health conditions due to malnutrition. She is still psychologically scarred from that and has, like many of her generation, a strange relationship with food. Her parents, both educated, lived at the poverty level we usually associate with poor places in Africa. That's how the country lived outside even the possibility of western cameras taking a picture.