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In December of 1991 the USSR started to slowly dissolve and a wave of Western influences flooded the former Soviet states Seemingly all at once western consumerism arrived in Russia along with the hope that western prosperity would soon follow3OHA examines the explosive changes in the cultural landscape of the region from the last days of the Soviet Union to the modern feudalism of now Via interviews with cultural luminaries like Artemy Troitsky Igor Shulinsky the recently incarcerated rapper Husky and 4 current day portraits of youth in Russia and Ukraine a variety of refracted angles come into focus through fake nikes clubs drugs instagram live and the ghostlike echo of Swan Lake