Two weeks after 14-year-old Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi and her family left Kyiv for a new life in Israel, the U.S.S.R collapsed. Recently, the artist drew on memories of her Soviet childhood in a series of paintings that have captivated the Russian-speaking Internet.
RFE/RL: Lenin on linen – an artist remembers her Soviet childhood
Statues of Lenin stand in the yard of Soviet monumental art workshop in Kyiv in 1990.
