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

By Shweta Srivastava

Moving On

Leningrad, USSR, 1977 | Masha Ivashintsova

“Everything that reminded me of her caused great pain and my only longing back then was to clear all of what belonged to her from my sight.” She hid away all her belongings in an attic of her family’s house only to find it back after almost two decades.