Henri Cartier-Bresson. Tallinn, Estonia. 1973. Two dancers training for a competition. Lenin approves.
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The Lenin quote really makes it – doesn’t it?
Yes – really gives a sense of the absurd personality cult and how omnipresent it must have been!
Apropos of this pic, have you read The File by Timothy Garton Ash? He writes about the experience of getting access to his Stasi file and visiting all of his informers one by one. I just finished it and I’m hoping to eventually write about it. I think you’d find really interesting.
Sounds right up my alley!