America Through A Soviet Lens
Life in the United States as captured by Soviet photographers
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This 1985 image of a man picking through a trash can in New York is one of many pictures in the archive focusing on American poverty.
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The Communist Party of the U.S.A. was also a favorite subject of TASS photographers. Here, the group holds a congress in 1966.
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A birthday party for American communist and civil-rights activist James Jackson in New York in 1975.
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Soviet schoolgirl and “goodwill ambassador” Katya Lycheva slurps some soft drink alongside a seemingly overeager "Ronald McDonald" in 1986.
