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  Monday  May 30  2005    10: 36 AM

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Soviets
Pictures from the end of the USSR


JUNE 1992 Almalyk, Uzbekistan Smelting copper and drawing copper cable at the Order of Lenin and Red Banner Metallurgical Factory. Both mine and mill are in the Fergana Valley, a rich source of strategic minerals. Workers here have always been well paid, so it’s no surprise they support the old system.

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