it is so so so strange to look at those streets which are my own streets i have known since childhood and know the Event depicted only took place 4 years before i was born. the USSR seems like such a distant past because i have never known it personally, but really it was not such a long time ago. its silly, but i kept looking at the countless people in the frames, looking for my mums face - she turned 23 on that day (same age as i am now!!) and she was in the city at the time.