Relics of the Soviet conquest of space Moscow Pioneer camps remnants of propaganda along a
journey sparsely dotted with statues of Stalin or Lenin from traditional Moldovan houses to
ghosts of the Caucasian wars by way of petro-chemical factories in the Donbass ... This report
invites the reader to relive through its striking pictures more than a hundred years of
history from the beginnings of the Soviet period to the legacy of a communist era now fast
fading from memory. Terence Abela has spent nine years travelling across the former USSR
unearthing fragments from its past. His love of history of photographing relics of the past
and discovering the unknown have combined to create this work. Driven by a desire to preserve
the heritage abandoned by states that lurch between the threat of nationalism dictatorship
wars and the will to invent a new history for themselves he appeals to us through his pictures
to protect these mementos which are at risk of disappearing in the not too distant future.
