Woman Finds 30,000 Negatives In Her Expired Mother’s Attic Revealing Soviet Union’s Mysterious Past

By Shweta Srivastava

Early Separation

May Day Demonstration, Leningrag, USSR, 1978 | Masha Ivashintsova

Aysa was only a little girl when her parents decided to separate. The family was broken. While Masha, Aysa’s mother decided to stay in Leningrad- a Russian city (now Petersburg), Aysa with her father moved to Moscow, 450 long miles away from her mother.