Soviet citizens with cameras

[vanyagor]

Naturally. It is the country where they (an me too) were born. + many people in Russia and other republics have relatives in other former USSR republics which makes the separation quite unnatural 🙂

 

[JonP]

Ivan out of interest as a member of one of the free republics how would you prefer to be addressed. Individual republics are too difficult and offense is too easy allbeit accidental
Jon P

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I can't believe nobody's discussed the lenses. I think they are all Jupiter-8s.

Jupiter-8: The Comrade's Choice. 😉

 

[Jocko]

One comrade hears a different drum - Industar 26m on the Fed 🙂

Cheers Ian

 

[vanyagor]

Ivan out of interest as a member of one of the free republics how would you prefer to be addressed. Individual republics are too difficult and offense is too easy allbeit accidental
Jon P

Well, I like the word soviet. especially how it sounds in russian. So you can call me this way. Or russian. Officially I'm russian (though for some time now in russia declaring your mationality is optional, in my original papers which I got before this change I'm russian 🙂 )

If you start to dig a bit then you would find out that my origins are from Ukraine (well actually Kiev used to be the capital of Kievskaja Rus, where both Russia and Ukraine took origin). And you if dig a bit more then you can find out it is Georgian. So it is all really related. I do not mind if one calls me Ukranian or Georgian btw 🙂 And that is pretty common situation for many people born in our country.

Here in Minneapolis we have a big community of former USSR people. Usually everyone refers to all of them as russians. And as far as i know most people do not mind that.