This is the first part of a four-part series, titled “30 Years of Freedom: Post-Soviet Transformations,” written for the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the USSR. In it, we explore the various trajectories taken by the republics that emerged out of the ashes of the “prison of nations.”
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A visitor walks among Lenin statues at the open-air museum in Frumushyka-Nova, some 170 km from south Ukrainian city of Odessa on Oct. 4, 2017.