Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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I asked my babushka about her life back in the USSR! (she was born in 1938, the Soviet Union dissolution was in 1991, so most part of her life was in the USSR)

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📍Videos with my family or about USSR:

youtu.be/mFiXNGhMmEE - A week with my family in Ufa, Russia | Bashkortostan - the land of Bashkirs and Tatars

youtu.be/ZEtzBYfBnSY - I took a Soviet steam train in Karelia | My expedition to the Far North of Russia starts!

youtu.be/x0GbkPkreWs - I found Soviet heritage... in Hanoi, Vietnam
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